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It’s almost that time of year again! Can you feel it football fans? I’ve been gearing up for the kickoff of the 2008-09 season for the past month at work and one week after our college season is off, it will be time for the big boys to hit the field. To celebrate this joyous occasion the proprietor of Cuzoogle.com (Cuzzy) has decided to hold a little friendly competition between bloggers…aptly named Cuzoogle’s Pigskin Picks.
Each week a group of twenty-five bloggers will put together their picks to win. Whoever should happen to win for that week will have their 125×125 advertisement posted on Cuzoogle.com, and this will continue throughout the season. At the end of the season the overall winner will get a cash prize and their 125×125 ad placed on the front page for the duration of the NFL postseason.
Yours truly GrandmasterB has entered and has every intention of taking home the big prize. I plan on fielding some great picks each week and personally cannot wait to show off my skills in this pick ‘em challenge. I personally don’t think Cuzzy (he’s entered under ChocolateDogBlog) has a chance, since his forté is basketball. Y’all will be seeing a lot of this image throughout the season…
Here are the blogs we are competing against…doesn’t appear to be too much competition. 
Yep Yep
The Sports Dungeon
Waiting for Next Year
The Sports Lounge
Tailgating Ideas
NESW Sports
The Blue Workhorse
My Sports Rumors
Inside Plays
Juiced Sports Blog
Buzz Pirates
Busted Coverage
The Chocolate Dog Blog
NE Patriots Draft
The Sports Dollar
Brahsome
Women Like Sports
Don Chavez
Banned in Hollywood
Mac Gs World
Macho Chip
Zoner Sports
CoverTwo
Sports Opinion
In the honor of good sportsmanship, I would like to wish everyone involved “good luck” during this season…you’re going to need it.
~ GrandmasterB
The guys at StoreStacker have teamed up with JohnCow.com to giveaway some fantastic prizes. The grand prize includes a new XBOX 360, but I think I’d rather have the second place prize which is either an iPod Touch or 3G iPhone…I don’t know which is the better prize. If you’re interested in entering the contest they have many different levels of commitment for entries.
For more details check out the WIN Big Time with StoreStacker Contest Page.
~ GrandmasterB
I skipped the Q&A last week in order to get some good questions rolling in the door and to find a good day of the week to commit to the feature post. I’ve settled on Thursdays for the Q&A with GrandmasterB feature; since it allows me to get things caught up over the weekend and more time to put together a clear and concise answer. Don’t forget to send me your questions and if your question is published you’ll get a free linkback from GrandmasterB and 100 EntreCard credits for your bankroll. Now onto the question for this week.
My boy Cuzzy (Cuzoogle.com) wrote me an email the other day asking me the following question:
I have recently started a new blog and want to set up a google site map. I downloaded the plugin and activated it but I am still having trouble getting my site map to work. It says I need to make sure the file is writeable and this was where I got lost. Can you help?
Jeff Finley and his band of designers have just released their latest series of vector artwork…Vector Pack 12. This series is definitely a bit more dark and graphic than past releases. As a brand, Go Media is definitely pushing themselves to become the leader when it comes to providing great artwork resources. The level of detail in this recent release is simply amazing. If you’re into dark and horrific imagery, you need to look no further than the Zombies and the Guts packs.
I could be wrong, but this has got to be the largest release to date from Go Media. I’ve counted up a grand total of 190 graphic elements in this release. If you take the value of purchasing the entire package at $34.90 that winds up being only 18 cents per element…that’s a great deal! All in all seven individually themed packs:
If you’re a design like myself, or just like collecting great resources for your library you should stop by and check out what Go Media has to offer. If you want to check out what you can do with the vector elements check out my Grunge Styled Banner Tutorial. Also, look for more tutorials from GrandmasterB to be coming up later this month. Subscribe to The Feed so you don’t miss out.
~ GrandmasterB
