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Help Me Win A Ruff PC and You Might Win It

written by John Chow on December 30th, 2007

As some of you may know, I am in the final round of a Ruff PC giveaway. I have stated that if I win the Ruff PC laptop, I would give it away to a lucky John Chow dot Com reader. To win the contest, I need to have the most votes by January 4, 2008.

If you want a shot of winning a very cool laptop, then vote me and tell all your friends to vote for me. If I don’t win the vote off, then there no way for you to win either. You can vote for John Chow dot Com using the widget below. Please vote now!

Help me win by putting the above poll on your blog and telling your readers to vote for me. Use the following codes:

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Sly from Slyvisions.com said on December 30th, 2007 at 6:45 pm

Is it just me, or have I seen this post before :?:

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John Chow said on December 30th, 2007 at 6:47 pm

It’s just you. :mrgreen: Actually, I did talked about this in my post announcing the winner of the Google gift.

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Frances Lui said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

John did talk about this, but he did not ask us to tell all of our friends to vote for him.
Sure, no problem. I will tell my friends to vote for John.
I have also put the poll widget in my blog and asked my readers to vote for John.
I will even use different computers to vote for John :twisted: . So, if you do win, don’t forget to give the laptop to me. Just kidding! :mrgreen:

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Steven said on December 31st, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Vote’s in =]

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Roseate said on January 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm

Hi John,
I have voted for you so count me in :mrgreen:

You will sure win :wink:

See ya,
Roseate

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Roseate said on January 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
MoneyNing said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:14 am

I thought I saw this before too :) No worries. At least you aren’t alone.

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365 To Freedom said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

No offense to Tech Treak, but how in the world is that guy beating you?

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Shaun Cartter said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

I’m starting to wonder the same thing… Tech Treak came out of nowhere and blew past John in the last round too. I’m guessing some black hat voting techniques ;)

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MoneyNing said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:15 am

Sounds to me like it’s black hat…

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Ash Haque said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

Hrm looks like you finally have some competition

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Coastal Vacations said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:22 pm

You got my vote! :grin:

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Zac Johnson said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

Time for John to pull out some Evil to win this one… :twisted:

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John Chow said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

Time to pull out the big guns! :twisted:

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mahdi yusuf said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:26 am

i would put in some bruce lee proverbs, be water my friend, be water!

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Zac Johnson said on December 31st, 2007 at 3:57 pm

haha, i knew a newsletter was going out!

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Coastal Vacations said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

I voted for you, I hope you win

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Joaquín Navarro said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

I voted again for John Chow but it seem the TechTreak guy is far away… :razz:

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bennyong.com said on December 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

I voted and voted and voted and yet Tech Treak is still ahead. Damn! Must be a way to use automate it using proxy bots…. :twisted: but that will be cheating. :evil: Good luck John on winning and the others on getting a Ruff if John wins.

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Karn Patel said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

John Chow dot Com all the way! (yeah I’m a suck up :mrgreen: )

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nickycakes said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

voted for TechTreak

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Robert Norton said on December 31st, 2007 at 4:05 pm

I love the cakes!

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Cash Dominator - Money Maker said on January 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Why would you do that? :shock:

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Fadhel said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

Hey John,

I am voting away, good luck, hopefully I win the laptop LOL :lol:

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Tha Guru said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

it doesn´t look too good till now but i have voted fore you again good luck

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Alan Johnson said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

Voted for you again John but I agree with Zac, it’s time to pull out some heavy artillery :)

Alan Johnson

PS: once again, I don’t need the laptop, feel free to donate it to an organization of choice should you pick this comment as the winner.

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ATV Style said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

I see that you’ve placed an ad banner at the top of each post John, but is it too late? Techtreak is beating you by over double the votes.

I’m with Zac too, flex some muscle john.

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Alan Johnson said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

There is still plenty of time (until January 4) for things to develop in John’s favor. About 24 hours ago, he had over 80% of the total votes. Since we are not talking about tens of thousands of votes here (there are less than 1k total votes at the moment of writing), just about anything can happen.

Alan Johnson

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David Chew said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:33 am

He still have the chance as long as there are readers who will vote for him. :grin:

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Alan Johnson said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:06 am

I see that he has gained about 200 other votes since the last time I’ve visited and, since his blog has a lot more traffic than the main competitor (who also seems to have gained about 200 votes since yesterday), he should be able to win as long as the other person plays fair.

Alan Johnson

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The Skinny On January said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

I voted for you. I suppose I could vote for you again, but it might cost you. :lol:

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Darron Beetge said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Just voted for you John, hope you win.
ps. My delivery address is …. <- Nah, you will get that if I win :grin:

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Affiliate Confession said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

I voted twice, do I get 2 chances to win the laptop?

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allen johnson said on December 30th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

DID I already vote for you to become president well I vote for you to get the laptop because you are one cool dude
Ps. I hop I win and If you guys want win the laptop and if you guys need help with something I will be willing to help alanj878@yahoo.com even though i am a Noob

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Nick said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

You should put the stumbleupon and other links in a more noticeable place maybe with icons! It took me going to the “TechTreak” website and noticing his stumbleupon icon right on top before I came back to check and see if you had them! I neglected to scroll to the bottom of your post and missed them.

Just a thought…

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Thomas Sinfield said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

just sent a vote your way. I hope you win!

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Roberta said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

I voted for ya in the final round….good luck!!

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Shaun Cartter said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

I’ve got my vote in… good luck John! I’ll be writing a blog post about it in the next day or two.

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zaki blogjer said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

Vote you too John. But you’re behind techtreak who has only 192 readers by almost 250 votes. I hope you win too :)

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John Chow said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Makes you wonder how he got all those votes, huh? :twisted:

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Affiliate Unleashed said on December 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

Proxy servers?! ;) Just kidding.

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Cash Dominator - Money Maker said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:12 am

Proxy servers and some fans? Maybe…nah they wouldn’t vote multiple times, right? :roll:

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Affiliate Confession said on December 31st, 2007 at 5:35 am

I think he must be doing something evil.

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MoneyNing said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:16 am

Maybe he will do a guest post on here in a few weeks if he wins on how he managed to do it :twisted:

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Karol Krizka said on December 30th, 2007 at 10:19 pm

Not to mention he has a terrible review with a lot of grammatical errors and most of it is just copy pasted descriptions of the different models. Seriously, Ruff PC needs to do some auditing on the poll.

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David Chew said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:31 am

Maybe he ask his friend to vote for him or he promote himself by advertising.

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Alan Johnson said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:09 am

I smell something fishy with the competitor, he simply does not seem to have enough traffic to justify such a large number of votes.

Alan Johnson

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Shaun Cartter said on January 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am

I agree. Oddly enough, he seems to win A LOT of contests… check out his about me page where he lists the thousands of dollars worth of prizes he’s won.

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Louie said on December 30th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

Voted for john before. Voted for john now! :)

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Affiliate Unleashed said on December 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

I voted for you John I want you to win!!! :D

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Simon said on December 30th, 2007 at 10:27 pm

voted, good luck John…you got some catching up to do

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chetan said on December 30th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

Voted for you and will tell you later how i will get you more votes ;)

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Contest Beat said on December 30th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

Damn man, the other guy is a couple hundred ahead!

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Blogvalia said on December 30th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

You have my vote John, I hope you Win you only need 251 votes to win it right now :roll:

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Murali said on December 30th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

Voted for you John

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Luis Fernando Imperator said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:05 am

yeah, voted!

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Luis Fernando Imperator said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:11 am

let’s win that one, John!

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clickusername said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:20 am

voted for you.

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Jason said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:28 am

Yup, like I mentioned in the last post, there’s no way Techtreak could have that many votes. The review isn’t that good, so I find it hard to believe people are just voting honestly for his review.

He hardly has a single comment on his entire blog, so he sure isn’t getting it from his readers. Either he set something up, has another website, or the contest is rigged so they don’t actually have to give away a computer , lol.

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Jason said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:32 am

Btw, all three contest phases are being added together. So you need a couple hundred to catch up from the last two rounds, and another couple hundred for this round. :!:

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Collin LaHay said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:49 am

Voted again, good luck.

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seo audit said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:53 am

Voted.What happened to your hosting.The blog was not accessible for me for like 30 min ?

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John Chow said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:20 am

Logs show I was up. Could have been your ISP or an upstream ISP.

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Marko Novak said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:56 am

Voted for you.

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Liviu Pantea said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:10 am

Already voted in the other post. Go John … go go go

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Cash Dominator - Money Maker said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:10 am

I voted for you again John. :mrgreen:

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David Chew said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:29 am

I had voted for you before and good luck to you. :smile:

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Mubin said on December 31st, 2007 at 2:58 am

Just for the records I have already voted. And you need to pull some shoemoney mumbo jumbo to beat this guy.

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Gina said on December 31st, 2007 at 3:24 am

I voted for you, John.

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trmanco said on December 31st, 2007 at 4:01 am

I just voted again :D

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Rodney said on December 31st, 2007 at 4:59 am

Voted, now you have 339, but still second. Also have write a post about it in my french blog and add the pool

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chetan said on December 31st, 2007 at 5:46 am

So here is from me John - http://money.propeller.com/story/2007/12/31/win-a-ruff-pc-laptop-by-just-voting

Also will post in my blog now :D
Hope your review wins ;)

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chetan said on December 31st, 2007 at 6:03 am

Sorry for commenting again, but here is the post in my blog too ;)

http://www.thewwwblog.com/win-a-laptop-by-voting-for-john-chow.html

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Josiah said on December 31st, 2007 at 6:32 am

I voted, but you got a long way to go to beat the current leader.

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Etienne Teo said on December 31st, 2007 at 7:48 am

i have already given my votes, cheers!

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Stefanita said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:04 am
Gasmoney said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:21 am

hey John , voted and good luck. ill re post this on my blog

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xiaolin said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:35 am

我投了你一票. 祝福你新年快乐

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Henrik Blunck said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:37 am

Yet another vote for you, John Chow.
As always, your articles ARE extremely interesting and I sure hope you could win this competition. You should be “Blogger of the Year” - noone writes as much and as widely as yourself.
Happy New Year, and keep up the good work in 2008 :-)
PS: Postage will be expensive when you send it off to Denmark. :-D

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jitesh arora said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:39 am

Hello john,i voted for u twice.I am syre you will win as all of us are with you.

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Joe said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:02 am

Just voted for you, John.. but you’re still behind!

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Sharat Jaswal said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:15 am

Good Look John.
Hopefully, will see you win this poll. I just voted for you!
Happy New Year BTW :)

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MoneyNing said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:17 am

Okay voted.

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MoneyNing said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:21 am

I bet the other guy is laughing his head off with all our comments about how he’s doing it :)

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Rantitorial said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am

I got your back John, you’ve got to get ahead of TechTrek!

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Rantitorial said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am

I got your back John, but you’ve got to get ahead of TechTrek!

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Winsor said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am

haha! wow alot of John Chow supporters. I just did a post to urge my readers to vote for john too!

I even placed a posting on innit.nuffnang.com to generate more traffic to my blog so as to propagate this contest.

Gonna vote using as much PC as I can get my hands on.

ALL THE BEST EVERYONE!

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/dev/null said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:28 am

http://www.polldaddy.com/pollVoteFlash.aspx?%3Canswer%20poll_id=%22185231%22%20pol_type=%220%22%20answer=%22888541%22%20other=%22%22%20poll_other=%220%22%20vote=%220%22%20/%3E is the direct URL which the Flash accesses to secure a vote for John Chow. If this was used in an HTML element’s ’src ‘ attribute value, John would secure a vote from every visitor to his site.

Now that’s evil! ;-)

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Coloradoblogging said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:40 am

I voted! I rather you give the Laptop to somebody who needs it rather than the other guy keeping it for himself. Lets hope you win.

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MyBlogContest said on December 31st, 2007 at 10:11 am

Vote for John #417 votes :mrgreen:
TechTreak (681 votes) is leading now.
Go John Go!!

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MyBlogContest said on December 31st, 2007 at 10:26 am

Great giveaway. I post at http://myblogcontest.com/vote-for-johnchow-and-win-ruff-pc/

Submit your blog contest and find blog contests at MyBLogContest.com :mrgreen:

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Coop said on December 31st, 2007 at 10:34 am

voted for ya,
Coop

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Todd Austin said on December 31st, 2007 at 10:46 am

Voted for you again, John.

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1 Million in 365 Days said on December 31st, 2007 at 10:58 am

Tech Treak has been leading for 2 days now. I wonder where he gets his voters. He isn’t offering the laptop as a prize if he’d win it. But he has that thing on his blog “help me get a laptop” or something. Anyways if all RSS subscribers would vote for John here… :D

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ATV Style said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am

I’m not suggesting cheating or anything but John your total vote count on that widget is raising steadily but the tech site votes are jumping 40-50 at a time.

I was playing with the widget code to see if it’s compatible with another application and so I was seeing fresh results for a few hours last night. Anyone else notice the same? He sure is giving you a run on this one.

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David Savage said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:22 am

Looks to me like some John Chow haters are keeping you down. :sad:

Oh well, I did my part and I’m rooting for you.

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chetan said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:29 am

It was John 417 votes & TechTreak 681 votes

Now John 442 votes & TechTreak 694 votes
So speed of gaining votes is good for John..

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Gasmoney said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:38 am

with 14k plus readers John should be blowing this guy out of the water.

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ismabera said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:53 am

you can vote on :cool: my 2 blog - too
http://ppp-payperplay.blogspot.com/
and :shock: (still!!)
Afloco Fan Club
John , Tech Trake is a litle better?!

I wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR

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ismabera said on December 31st, 2007 at 11:54 am

Sorry, :smile: Agloco and not :lol: Afloco

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Bradley said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:11 pm

voted for ya!

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Zac Johnson said on December 31st, 2007 at 12:49 pm

And John Chow pulls into the lead! :razz:

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iPhone in Canada said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Evilness sure does pay off! :mrgreen:

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John Chow said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Big guns have been fired! :twisted:

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Affiliate Confession said on December 31st, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Dude, you are like way in the lead now. Congrats, I hope I win!

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Alan Johnson said on December 31st, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Now that’s better John (68% definitely seems fair considering the difference in traffic between this blog and the other competitors), let’s see him top that :)

Alan Johnson

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chetan said on December 31st, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Thats’ sudden hit up of votes..
Major changes in just 3 hours.. Go on John :D
Hope my support and help through blogs and propeller helps :)

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