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Christmas cheer and a facelift

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If you’re looking at my actual blog rather than via a feed reader you’ll notice that my site has had a facelift. My weblog banner has been the same for a while now and it was time for a change.

Here’s the old one.

I decided to go with red/orange and green in keeping with Christmas type colours but I didn’t do traditional Christmas holly, decorations etc for two reasons. One is that I probably won’t get around to changing it after Christmas in a timely manner and, two, I’m not a huge fan of the ‘traditional’ Christmas decorations. In fact it makes me feel a bit alien (tying in nicely with my new banner). I used the brushes from Smashing Magazine’s website.

I also decided to change my ‘look’ in response to SueBlimeley’s spreading the Christmas cheer. I’m trying my hardest to get into the spirit! It seems every year I am dragged somewhat reluctantly into the whole thing. It’s kind of hard to escape so I can understand why it makes some people feel really awful.

Have you entered my giveaway to win a DVD? This is the first of three I’ll be giving away. Even if you don’t want it, it might make a good Christmas present for someone you know.

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One concert down – one to go

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Yesterday JJ had his school end of year concert. These things are always at an inconvenient time because of my work but I managed an hour or so off and luckily they were on second which made the whole thing fairly bearable.

It was also a non-Christmas theme as this snippet of video shows. (Click on image which will take you to the Flickr site to view. I couldn’t embed it directly here.)

End of year school concert

I recently found out that it’s only Junior Primary who have an end of year concert so I’ve one more year of this to go. When I went to primary school we had our end of year concerts in the local town hall and they went for the entire seven years of primary school.

This afternoon is his end of year circus school show. Clown costume is at the ready and I’m pretty pleased with what I managed to improvise. Photos to come of that!

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If you haven’t already don’t forget to take part in my giveaway. Details are here.

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Giveaway bonanza

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The Ellen Show DVD giveawayMerry Christmas to my blog readers. I’m giving away The Ellen Show DVD. Go check out the details.

There will be more to come over the next few weeks.

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Sony Ericsson C902 phone giveaway

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Sony Ericsson C902 phone A couple of months ago I received the phone from Sony Ericsson, like the picture to the left, to try out and review if I so wished.

I’ve now done this and I’m going to give it away. I’m locked into a contract with my current phone and it doesn’t seem worth having another phone sitting around doing nothing.

What you need to do to win it:

  • Write about why you would like to win it on your blog. It doesn’t have to be a long entry. Make it funny, add pictures. Do what you like, so long as it conveys why you want this phone.
  • Link to my blog – http://semanticallydriven.com within your entry.
  • Leave a comment on this post so I know that you’ve entered.
  • Do this by the witching hour on Friday 31 October (midnight on 31 October incase I’m muddled about what the witching hour is).

What would be nice for you to do:

  • One of the conditions for me keeping it was to donate money to a charity – ‘Clean Up Australia‘ has been nominated. I’m still going to do this and if you win and feel so inclined to donate then that would be great. Even if you don’t win and feel so inclined to donate that would be great.

Disclaimers and further information:

  • It doesn’t have a SIM card. You’ll need to supply your own.
  • It’s not locked to any particular Australian phone network.
  • For people outside Australia, it might not work with mobile phone providers so this is only open to Australian readers.

What you get

You might win the phone but even if you don’t I will post links to all the bloggers that participated during the next couple of weeks and at the end.

For even more information about the phone – read these reviews from Neerav, John Lampard, Lee, Ben and Greg.

Good luck.

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