I have used wordpress for quite a while for this blog. It goes all the way back to September 2006. At that time I have only two choices for a self hosted blog, Movable Type and Wordpress. And damn I am glad that I picked Wordpress, it is a kicked-ass script that top all free and paid php script I have used so far.

Wordpress has evolved into a great php script. It is flexible with all the plugins, and it only gets better. On top of that you get tones of great free theme or you could purchase superb premium theme that is widely available.

Keeping it short and simple, here are the pros:-

• Great Themes
• Many Many Plugins
• SEO Friendly Permalink
• Easily Manage Sidebar Widget
• One click upgrade (no more heart attack when upgrading the script)
• Great user management for multiple authors blog
• SPAM prevention (not perfect, but good enough)
• Expandability

Write your story about Wordpress, and stand a chance to win some great prizes at this Wordpress Contest.

My other website, a 3 year old Malaysia Classifieds is having a contest and the prizes to be won includes Ipod, Food Vouchers, Dancing for Two, Polo T-Shirts and more.

The reason why I am organizing this contest because I would like to encourage Malaysian citizen to make the best use of the Internet to ease their life. With growing amount of merchants selling online, consumer could actually do selling online too for their second hand item. Do not waste a resources such as an old computer when you buy another new computer, there is definitely someone who are willing to pay few bucks for it. Worst come to worst, you could actually give it free, and determine that only charitable foundation could enquire about the free PC.

That is just one simple that you will not be able to do them on a conventional newspaper classifieds. Moreover, it is a FREE Malaysia Classifieds. What else could you ask for more. There is no harm in posting both in conventional newspaper classifieds and also our online classifieds. You could post Malaysia property, car, house, land, jobs, electronics, services and much more that you could offer to other fellow Malaysian.

Now with this Malaysia Classifieds Contest, there is one more reason why you should participate in this online marketplace.

As there is more and more bloggers and website setting up contest for bloggers to review their website. It is setup for those who are interested to join this type of contest too. It is actually pretty good consider that you could win something cool.

This is my last post for this month, as you know already that I will be away.

There is a contest started by Michael Kwan (freelance writing) and Ed Lau (personal blog). The prize for this contest is a 8GB Ipod Nano and a 4GB Ipod Nano up for grab. All you have to do is to suggest a domain name suitable for hockey.

This is open to people without a blog too. So just email them your idea.