As a London-born British expat living in the US, I'm a long way from home - but there are constant reminders of the my nationality. Some are subtle, yet important cultural differences (Lack of tea) and some are larger (Like filling in the extensive paperwork to renew my greencard!). But…
In observation of Christmas and New Year's, Jai and I are taking a short vacation from Friday, December 21st through Wednesday, January 2nd. Our holiday programming schedule is as follows: Posts: There are new posts scheduled every day through our break, so there will still be fresh content here every…
Today is the first day of October, which kicks off Anti-Bullying Month. This initiative has been started with the hopes of shining light on this issue and working on solutions. One such advocate is Captain McFinn and Friends, a loveable storybook series featuring the adventures of underwater pals who hope…
I want to apologize to anyone who visited my site in the wee hours of the morning and got a malware warning. An ad network which we are a part of, IZEA Media, announced today that one of their advertising publishers was serving malware, which caused all of us in…
My apologies for the site downtime this morning! We had an issue with our web host temporarily shutting down our site due to traffic/CPU usage slowing down their server. You'll notice that a few cosmetic features have been modified - we did that to get the site back up immediately…
We have officially moved everything over to our new web host! It was a huge job, but it went more smoothly than anticipated with no known downtime. Hooray! As I mentioned on Facebook earlier today, there was a period when the domain was propagating during which comments were at risk…
I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that Contest Corner will be moving to a new web host this weekend. This won't mean anything different for the look or usability of the site - this is purely a backend upgrade in order to speed up loading time and make our…
You may have noticed that as of today, all of our giveaways are now utilizing Rafflecopter. What do you think? I'm personally very excited about the switch as it not only makes it much faster for my readers to enter giveaways, but much faster for me to post them. And…
I just wanted to post one final reminder that Google Friend Connect will be discontinued for all non-Blogger hosted blogs tomorrow, March 1st. To ensure that you continue to receive our updates after this service is retired, here are four other ways you can keep up with Contest Corner: Google…
I just wanted to remind everyone that Google Friend Connect will no longer be available to Contest Corner readers starting on March 1st. In case you missed my first post about it, here's the scoop: Google has announced that it is discontinuing the Google Friend Connect service for non-blogger hosted…
