I have recently surpassed 1 million hits on PaulStamatiou.com since September 12th, 2005. This blog is a bit older than that, but Sept. 12th was the first date I started using blogtopsites. I would have used Mint to track overall traffic but my Mint database had corrupted when upgrading from Mint 1.14 to 1.20. I should have followed Shaun's instructions. Regardless, today is a day of celebration! Thanks to everyone that has ever read one of my articles, pinged my feed or left a (nice) comment. Achieving 1 million hits on a blog that had its humble beginnings, served on a Mac Mini with a cable connection moving up to being a 9rules blog, partnered with Media Temple and having breached the Technorati Top 1000 blogs is definitely something I am proud of.

In celebration of this landmark I will be having a little contest to give back to the same readers that helped get it all started. This contest will be a little different than most of my contests. It will be in the form of a caption contest. Just leave a quote for what you think the picture below should have as a caption.

To help with the prizes, Victor Cajiao has graciously donated $50 to be spent on iTunes Music Store gift certificates. If there is only one great caption that stands out, that person will win the $50 iTMS gift certificate. If there is a tie or runner-up, I will split it up into two gift certificates. I will be sending them by email so please double-check that you are using the proper email address. Thanks again to Victor. You can catch Victor on his two great podcasts - Typical PC User and Typical Mac User. Each person can submit at most 2 captions. This contest will only last for a day or two, so get your entries in ASAP. Let the celebration begin!

Update: Dominic Rivera from TheBloggingTimes.com has just donated another $50 to the contest. In order to make use of the larger prize, I will be extending the contest an extra day. Also, the new caption limit is 3. So if you only included 2 but have another idea, you may enter again. Thanks to Minic for the donation and I hope this contest ends a success. I will close the contest sometime on Friday by leaving a comment and I will then deliberate with my roommates on which captions will be winners. Likely, there will be 2 or more winners so your odds have increased substantially.