The 5 winners of the caption competition, winning groovy 2GB USB keys from Littlequiz.com are :

Ger Swanser

…’dear diary, when i asked for an office with a ‘light airy feel’ i think they took me too literally…..’

Paysan

AIB repossessions get serious…

Marcela

So you got an invite for Google Wave, then

Tomas McGuinness

As Gordon read through his email, he began to get a strange, sinking feeling….

Patricia Doyle

This online f(psh)ishing is not all its cracked up to be

Thank you everyone for all the great comments, it was good fun reading through them.

I didn’t pick out the winners in case I was biased in any way so I asked some friends and family to read through them and pick out 5 of the best. I’ve emailed each of the winners earlier this morning.

My nephew Donal tested the quality of the prizes before they go out in the post.

Trying to work in this weather..

Thanks to the Monkeys at Littlequiz.com, theres a free 2GB USB stick for the 5 best captions for this picture.

Update: I’ll close the competition this Friday the 27th and ask some friends and family to pick the best ones. Thanks for all the entries so far..!

A few months ago I wrote a script to monitor the links on a webpage that users are clicking on to leave the page.

The script is a combination of; CSS to label the links to be tracked, Javascript to trigger the code when the link is clicked and finally PHP to store the time, current page, destination page, browser agent and IP address of the user.

The links use a Class within the link to label the links to monitor  and doesn’t change the link itself, retaining any referral address.

I wanted to test this out over time and give it an easy page to work with rather than putting it on to the blog straight away to monitor the links there.

I put the script on my own Murrion Software homepage which is a simple screen showing a logo and 3 links. This links go to this blog, a ‘tools’ page containing other free tools and scripts and also to a ‘contact’ page.

Here are the (rounded)  percentages of clicks each button received from August to October inclusive.

‘Tools’ link :  41%
‘Blog’ link : 31%
‘Contact’ link : 17%

10% left the page without clicking any link.

It’s not quite a heat-map but it’s interesting to see. I’ve swapped around the buttons now to see if their position has any influence on clicks over the next 3 months. I imagine there will be little or no difference.

After Bizspark for Startups, Microsoft launch WebsiteSpark programme for Web Developers and designers .

Barcamp Cork the 3rd is confirmed for November 14th.

A great service for storing passwords, free online password manager www.passpack.com (Via @alexleonard)

In the wake of a blog post from Pat Phelan, James Corbett kicked off ‘OutVesting‘ whereby people on Twitter pledge to donate 50 Euro along with 99 others to give 5,000 Euro to a startup. In what I believe was under a week, 100 people have already pledged to donate 50 Euro. More on http://www.outvesting.org/

Little Quiz launched this week offering a chance to win a spanking new Sony Ericsson walkman phone compliments of their first quiz sponsor, downloadmusic.ie

To be in with a chance to win the phone you just answer 3 simple questions, that’s all!

The monkeys behind Littlequiz must have lost their marbles because they’re just giving stuff away. If you sign up to the newsletter you could win €100 in cash and there’s even a page dedicated to how to win prizes.

I’m looking forward to seeing more prizes on offer on the site from week to week. It’s a great looking site and I hope plenty of sponsors come onboard to help out and promote their own products at the same time.

Try out this weeks quiz  on LittleQuiz