I located another LJ users who recommended a keyboard macro.  I found this one extremely easy to install and implement. 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/trekkiegrrrl/130970.html

OK, I think I've answered my own questions.  I found a number of segments in 'that book' that must be what I was thinking of.   One of a few being (re: TMD),

 

"Few people know that it is also the story of Alan: the man you see on screen is his real self (save for the fact that he's not a ghost and he hasn't had an affair with Juliet Stevenson)."

 

If anyone is aware of a more detailed reference to this elsewhere, let me know, thanks.

While I'm at it, the quote I am looking for is actually I believe from Juliet Stevenson, where she talks about TMD Jamie being the character that AR has played that is most like himself.   Can anyone point me to that information?  Thanks

No really now, it has been fun so far but this contest is really begining to annoy me. It was fun to have a few jokes about going into the enymy lines and finding clues and whatsoever but come on! We are grownups here or at least most of us are and well the majority here sure acts like it even if they are in their teens! But this IS fishy! I have just returned from my New Years party, my computer was shut for about 6 hourse, I opened the hello page and I got that restriction page again and got it AGAIN when I tried to cast my vote! And just think about it! It`s impossible! We cannot overcome the gap of 1800 votes no matter how much we try! And that is technicly impossible! people have lives of their own, New Years included all sorts of preparations, it`s IMPOSSIBLE to maintaint that gap! Either they get ahead by much more than that or they slack off! But this is definetly a fix up and I`ve had just about enough of this! And it`s not possible for the Blooms to have some sort of secret society, get real! I mean they need the publicity too, they have to talk through some forums or GB! And the Hello poll, I repeat, is NOT listed in more than 3 places by my count! It`s not possible to round up that many fans to vote! hey, even in his IMDB board people were thinking of voting for Alan! And one more thing about Hello! They aren`t going to validate anything! Why do you think we couldn`t find out he totalls from the monthly vote? The votes stayed exactly as they appeared, no one was disqualified, that is just bull****! Susan , you did well in sending that email but don`t get your hopes done! Elaine you are right, it could be a publicity scam after all! I am so curious what would happen if we suddenly STOP voting! I bet my two cents that Blooms votes would suddenly drop as well! But what the heck, I hope I`m just being paranoid! But what I do think is that we should send more emails to Hello, at least let them know that we are not just some dumb readers! I am gonna send one in the morning! Have a good night everyone!

OK, I've stumbled across a tidbit and I'm a bit confused.  Alan's lost love in AABA was named "Stella Maris", was she not? 

I was searching for a particular quote related to TMD tonight, and in this article, I did a double take when I noticed that the character of Maura (the girl taking English lessons from Nina) was played by an actress named Stella Maris. 

What gives?? 

I wish all of you wonderful people a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful New Year!

Marianne - thanks for that picture.  It lifted my spirits! 

Welcome to Melli and Margaret too!  This is THE way to start the new year!

Emily, you may be totally right.  Since I read the Bloom has won the last two years in a row, that is awfully suspicious.  Plus notice, Bloom is January's winner from 2005 as well. The voting is just to way overboard.

Good letter, Susan.  If Hello is trying to pull chains, that will at least let them know we are on to them. 

My suggestion is that we continue to try to get AR into first place but if Emily's hunch is right, it could be a losing battle.  So please don't let it get you all down and we will just continue to vote AR as feverishly as we can and at the least keep him in second place.  That ought to give Hello a hint or two. 

Thanks GolfWizard for the macro program and instructions. That is one that I didn't see this afternoon.  I'm off to take a look at it.  Looks like its already been proved a winner, though!  I'll post back after I give it a test run.

Hello Nimbus Girl!  Welcome out of lurkdom and I hope you will stay with us and have some fun!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/ARDLHGB2/PF1.jpg

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I dont have any interest in voting in this silly thing.  But just reading Susan's letter, the thought occurred to me that maybe it's in Hello Magazine's best interest to have Orlando Bloom winning year after year. Orlando Bloom is a bigger star than AR -- not fair, but it's true. Orlando Bloom's face on the cover of a magazine sells. Did anyone consider that this thing is rigged by Hello?

Happy new year for everyone Alan fans !!

And ....go vote!!!!!

Very nicely worded letter, Susan. Cool and authorative!

OB just jumped up in votes again. How is this happening? Alan's only gone up by like 4 or 5 and he's gone up about 20.

Hmmmm.....something has to be going on...

I'm off to sleep the New Year in. A happy 2006 to you all thanks for your company today. I'll hand over to the night shift and I'll be with you all in 2006.

Claudia,

5:34 PM EST I am around if you want to meet in the chatroom to discuss technical  things.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Ah ha!  Alanfan and I were posting at the same time and we both noticed it!  Something is very fishy....any response from Hello?

All right....this time I watched very carefully.  The Bloom vote just jumped 30 votes to my 3 votes.  Could they have some system set up where everytime Alan gets a vote, Orlando gets 10?  NO!  OF COURSE I'M NOT PARANOID!  WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU SAY SUCH A THING!!

I have just voted again, Bloomer's went up by 10 and Alan's by 5. Something is definitely wrong somewhere.

The very best to all and here's to a peaceful New Year!

Nimbus Girl! Don't worry! You're nearly same age as mine

HAve you vote for Alan?

Vicki:

well if it's Cap'n Jack I probably can take it!!!!

I think now would be a good time to come out of lurkdom.

Hello everyone. I am a huge Alan fan which some of my friends think is strange since I'm only 15, but that doesn't bother me! I think he's an amazing actor. 

I'm Nimbus Girl off of HPANA is any of you belong to that site or have seen the Alan thread there.

Anyway I love this site so much and it has all the Alan downloads I could ever dream of! and I love reading the posts on this guest book.

Oh I'm voting every chance I get on the Hello poll for Alan!!!! He  is the most attractive!! 

And I hope every has a 

These Bloomers are something else.  I most definitely think something foul is afoot.....it started last night when they began to pull ahead by about 100 votes every quarter hour.  Somebody in their camp has got an inside track into some sort of trickery. 

Thanks to sue and Barbara for going "undercover" into enemy territory to try and discover their secrets.  But please be careful, you two....we wouldn't want you to get caught.  Who knows what sort of torture they might put you through.  A non-stop loop of pirates and elves, no doubt....while your eyelids are taped open.....*shudder*  Perhaps we can provide you with a capsule of obliviating potion you can bite down on should you be apprehended in the line of duty. 

I think we should just continue on with the voting every 16 minutes (also have my kitchen timer set...much to the annoyance of the rest of my family) and not try to mess with deleting cookies, etc.  As someone else so wisely said, we don't want to be disqualified.  If the Bloomies are up to no good, then let them be disqualified.  Remember, slow and steady wins the race!

A very happy, safe, prosperous, healthy New Year to all on this GB!           

Happy new year to Barbara and all the other countries that have already had their celebrations!!!!  I watched the celebration in Sydney this morning on CNN.  It was beautiful!

Everyone be safe and have a great time tonight!

Hi Tawny and welcome aboard!  I hope you will stick around and hang out with us. 

I've been looking at macro programs alllll afternoon and I haven't found anything I like so far.  I'll keep looking around and even am thinking of asking some programmer friends to write us something.  I'll keep you posted.  Until then, I'm relying solely on Snape summoning me from other parts of the house. 

Let's don't give up, yall!  No matter how bleak it looks at times, we still can't give up. 

Sue, I'm thinking there are some "secret" Bloomer groups that have been exchanging secrets.  I mean I really thought it would be Depp we would be up against not Bloom. 

And judging by their comments, I think the Bloomers have a whole lot to learn about men, that's for sure! 

I feel like cryin!

I've been all day long voting and the closer we can get to close the gap is 1800!

MUST VOTE AGAIN...

Well its just time for me to say:

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL AND MAY BRING YOU ALL YOU DESIRE

Best Wishes to everyone and here's to a AR filled 2006

And for the last time this year:

Take Care

Sarah!xxx

Happy 2006. Nice morning here but no solution to the Bloombabes I see. I scouted round some OB sites as someone else did and couldn't see any activity like ours. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Hope you get some joy from Hello magazine, Sue. Before going out to celebrate last night I watched AABA. Lovely atmospheric film but just one small unease - didn't like the over the top melodramatics at the end of the wharf where he shouts out "Stella Maris" and grabs the air. I think he is better at showing emotion by a twitch of an eyebrow or a small movement of the mouth. All the best to everyone and Claudia our great site host.

Well I have emailed Hello! and IF I get an email in return I will let you all know!!

Alanfan and Sarah -- I completely agree, something's definitely NOT right. LESS THAN HALF of my votes make his total go up. About 60% of the time Alan's total doesn't move, whereas Bloom's does.

Also, the sudden upsurge of votes for OB last night which put him aheady of AR by a margin of exactly 2,000 votes is rather...strange. 

There IS something fishy going on, methinks.

Umm... sorry Tawny but Blooming Orlando is almost 2000 ahead the the mo!!

Here's a link to Orlando Bloom's IMDb thread on Hello HERE.

Interestiong reading but leaves us none the wiser, maybe his agent has hacked into Hello or something!!!

Just stepping out of lurkdom to express my frustration with voting. Here's my new motto:

Don't know how the Bloomers are doing it, but we shall just have to persevere! Never give up. Never surrender. At least we'll make them work for it this year! Heck, they're bound to get tired eventually...

Multiple computers in the same house add votes. Anybody got a Blackberry or a cellular phone with internet access? Let's harass, er, persuade our friends to vote, even if just once or twice. I'm in this for the long haul!

Therese

Vote early. Vote often. Vote now.

Well it worked OK this time. Having a word with Hello might be a good idea. Is there away of getting in touch? I don't even subscribe.

Thanks! I've download ace set up!

And... i'll see if it'll work..

And about cookies.. I indeed try it.. I don't think it work either..

and once again!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006!

IT'S A DOG YEAR! and APPARENTLY ALAN's SHIO is DOG!

SO, IT'S AN ALAN RICKMAN YEAR!

It is strange. The only site I quoted had a page of comments BUT nobody was discussing how to beat the system etc. Maybe there is a hardcore private forum out there somewhere with crazed women clicking buttons day and night!!................................

No Wait!.....that'd be us !!!

Christina - I get that little annoying box saying I can only vote every 15 minutes if I refresh so just close it and start again.

And (cant remember who said) but yes, I also have voted and his total hasnt gone up! Something aint right

Me might have a ickle word with Hello!

I'm begining to suspect something is not right. Twice I've voted and Alan's total hasn't moved but OB's has. Has anyone else had this problem?

Sue, thanks for the digg ups!

Thaaaaaaaat`s IT! No more Mr...I mean Mss Nice Guy! I mean Girl!!!! Let`s kick A*S! *stretching fingers* *pats mouse* Let`s do some clickin`!!!

 By Grabthar`s Hammer, he`s going down!!! Kaaa-Bloom!!!  

And here`s something to lift up the spirits!

Martina, I said that earlier today, but I have watched it, it doesn't happen all the time.

Another Quote!

They will never understand will they?

Just paddling in the murky waters of Bloomdon here's one quote:

Hmm.......

That thing Michelle and I were doing doesn't seem to work anymore ie we were opening an new page after the Hello one then going back and revoting. It appeared to work but now if you go back to the Hello page and vote you can't go forward again!! Strange!

Just wanted to apologise for the typos in my last post. *embarrassed* That's supposed to be "our little Bloom problem" (not "your"), and "my" laptop (not "may")... 

Happy New Year my merry men..I mean women!

I left you a little message on my freshly created and totally pointless blog as well but I just had to wish you the best time tonight and may the New Year bring you all the happiness and prosperity you deserve! Iy`s been wonderful getting to know all of you and I do hope you`re up for another round! Cheers!

All my love goes with you!

Chris

Where are you ladies...?  We were catching up on Bloom earlier today and now he is pulling away again... WHAT computers are they using ?  super fast or what ? I'm going to contact an Italian Alan site through a contact I made at Chelsea... hope it helps Come on WE will not surrender.... Never

Let's get busy tonight.. come on everyone ALAN NEEDS YOU!   NOW!

I don't think it's working either. 

I would be a bit careful if I were you we don't want to be disqualified for cheating. I have the voting page on my favorites and a kitchen clock set every 16 minutes and I'm voting that way. Its slow but it works.

Oh vrikey, it isnt even telling me I have to wait 15 minutes now, its just not accepting my vote

Come on guys and gals we are making headway slowly but surely!

I don't think the delete cookies is working either, we just have to have the FAITH... and keep spreading the word far and wide, what was that story about the tortoise and the hare ?"Really good synopsis on Alan from Hello and a decent pic !

I've done or I'm doing the delete cookies thing but the vote numbers dont always go up. SOmetimes it goes up 3 others it stays the same!!! Does that mean while I've done this for the last 30 minutes that none of my votes have counted?? LOL

I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud...but we don't want to be disqualified.  Even though it may or may not be working, we don't want to be accused of cheating.  AR's the best, KEEP VOTING!!

Thanks for pointing me to that Snow Cake article, CatsPlay!  I have seen the article but it never had all those lovely photos attached before.

Very interesting discussion on the guns in Die Hard.  I haven't seen that one for a while (though it is usually on my holiday viewing list along with TJM, LA, and other holiday classics) so I am looking forward to another watch.  Speaking of gun aversion, do you know that the guns AR used in QDU are in a gun museum somewhere?  Wonder how he feels about that, pacifist that he is...

Happy New Year, everybody!  Here's to another year of AR Fandom.

We will just have to hope that they get tried before we do.

But we have done so much in a matter of minutes! if we keep like this, cookies or not, we still can overcome baby bloom!

I don't think the delete cookies is working.  It prevents the pop up but the vote count does not increase.

Yesssssssssss Lucy, you are a genius!!!

I deleted the cookies, refreshed the page and vote again. It seems to work!

I am going to try it again, just to be sure.

No, that's Delete Cookies!  Sorry!

Ladies, I know the secret!

Each time you vote, delete your cookies and vote again!

For IE: go to Tools, click Internet Options, and then click the button "Delete Files."  You can vote unlimited times!

What a nightmare!!

And it is somewhat happening, I can't believe it.
I am going to download another browser, this situation requires extreme measures.

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER!!

I have sent a message to ebay now, so hope the "Litttle Ferret" (which is milder than I would call them!!LOL) removes it.

INTJ I still get that restriction window, it must be that your opera has a pop up blocker, I can find no other explanation..

.Don`t you guys feel like kids again?! I do!!! Doing all this detective search and trying to find clues as to what the enemy is doing and getting to se who can press he button faster!

Hi, thanks for the concern about the paper. I sent a message to the seller asking her to remove it but am not sure how you complain to ebay. Do I have to go through the German page??

Bit late on this as RL has a way of interrupting these days.

Looks like the OBcanobies have us shafted but I shall carry on LOL

Then it's about time someone else won. That should be Alan. The Bloomers haven't met us before obviously. We'll give them a run for their money.

Something fishy is going on for sure...

Bloom has won the last two years in a row!!!

They may have the numbers but we have the heart!!!!

(and some VERY smart ladies!!!)

hmmm time for a little more...

Slightly OT, re: the Stewart play AR has been to on Dec 11. It was a play by JON Steward and not Patrick Stewart, staged in Prince Edward Theatre not The Albery Theatre. And there were only TWO performances that day (11.12.), so nobody could have gone watched it afterwards....LOL. Sorry if anyone got confused (Hikity? RickiNicki? Whoever wanted to see it...you would've missed it anyways.).

Hi everyone, this is AWFUL!! That Bloom boy is ahead by 2000 votes - the mind boggles.

However, I MAY have found the solution to your little Bloom problem.

This is going to be a bit long-winded so please bear with me:

I have been voting from as many browsers as may laptop can handle - Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Avant, Enigma, FlashPeak Slim Browser, GoSurf, Advanced Browser, Ace Explorer and Netscape. You can find them (they're all free) here:

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0-1-0.html?qt=browser&author=&titlename=&desc=&dlcount=&daysback=&swlink=&gfiletype=&os=128&li=49&dlsize=&ca=&x=38&y=13

Now, I have discovered that I can vote in Opera just about EVERY ONE OR  TWO MINUTES (!!) as long as I don't hit the vote button continuously but go to another browser window, vote there, and then go back to Opera.

It is important that you do something in your other browser window(s) before going back to Opera, such as clicking on the vote button (even if the your vote isn't being registered because of the 15 minutes) - once there has been some activity in another browser, your vote IS being registered when you vote again Opera!!

Can you guys check if this works on your computers as well (remember, keep switching back an forth between Opera and your other browsers), or if this is just a glitch in my computer? I have a suspicion, though, that it is not - it would account for the sudden upsurge in votes for Bloom, if the Bloom fans had discovered this as well.

Perhaps we have a browser expert here who can tell us what is causing this so we can take full advantage of Opera and increase AR's votes more effectively?

Agree Claudia... There's just something fishy going on there.. I've been voting for 7 and a half hours.. Their immense rising votes number are just don't make any senses..

Gotta go to check.. Maybe i can find something...  

and...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Excellent thinking beryl! We do need to see if we can stake out some of the Bloom sites and figure out what they are doing. There's nothing saying that they haven't done that to us and are now using our tools against us. 

I'll have to dig around and see if I can find the macro program again, Vicki.  Mine expired in the monthly vote.  I would LOVE to find another one!

Oh dear, I have to agree there is something rotten in the state of Bloomers, yall!  I know he's popular but those people are up to no good!    We also have to remember that Bloom fans some time before we even knew the voting had started. 

But I know we can do this.  We just have to NOT give up!!!!  And never surrender!!!

Sorry to dissapoint you just before the new year but

the result of the voting is at the moment as follow:

Orlando Bloom 13433  

and

Alan Rickman 11495

But anyway I wish you A Happy New Year

LG Chalebh

Susan~ please give me a link to as many browser as you can get! and i'll download all of it!

I only have one browser

Christina~ Does your other browser using a pop-up blocker?

Watch the numbers when you vote  a few times now when I've voted for Alan an addition to OB's votes was made. Now it could be coinsidence, I hope thats all it is.

Christina~ I'm not sleeping darling!  Anyway.. I only have one browser Internet Explorer! I guess you can do that!

Hmm - I see Beryl's point. Maybe the Bloombabes somehow have got round the every 15 minutes rule? How does Hello magazine check? is it a simple computer procedure and the votes get adjusted every day? I  think something is not quite right or maybe I am so very, very, biased in Alan's favour that I can't acknowledge that anyone would prefer the "Bloomboy".

DOn't worry! We can make it! We can!

WE CAN! WE CAN!

guys!! we are Sooo way behind!!! but dont give up guys, we can Do this!!!

*cough* i snooped around one of the OB forums...it seems like they keep on pressing the vote button, they don't even bother waiting for 15 min!.. hmm... i sure hope Hello was serious about that rule..

so... what do we do? we can NOT let Bloom win...we just CAN'T! argghhh

Who are these Bloom fans from hell??  I'm voting every 16 minutes on three different browsers and they are jumping ahead by leaps and bounds.  I tried your reminder download, CatsPlay and got it to work on my desktop computer but for some reason it won't work on my laptop. 

Claudia, can you post the link to that macro program again?  Thanks.

Oh my.. I have suspicion that the 'Young' guy fans are all change direction to vote for Bloom!

i become paranoid!

I was doing what sue and michelle were suggesting and that was working, but Blooms count was almost doubling at the same time. I reckon they have found something that we don't know about. Does anyone want to see if they can find out what? I have to do some work now so have no time.

This is depressing... the gap became further and further no matter how much i click the vote panel..

I remember all those articles when they first started filming in wawa and it was lovely to go back over and read again. Thanks CP.

I shall have to go watch Die Hard again and see if I can notice anything. I suppose if you have never handled a weapon it is a bit scary the first time, even if it is a movie prop.

Lex, love that desert island paper. Nice cap from DH.

Have the Bloomys found some secret formula because they have suddenly ratched up the votes! It's going to be a hard hard campaign and still two weeks to go!

Here's another similar link from that same publication with a whole bunch of pics (none AR that I See though).  Is "Abe the dog" the dog AR was walking in Wawa?

http://www.ltvnews.com/viewarticle.php?id=967

I apologize if this is old news but I found this article about Snow Cake quite interesting, because it has a ton of links throughout the article and at the end of the article to photos from the set -- including the SUV that AR will drive in the accident scene.

http://www.ltvnews.com/viewarticle.php?id=916

OH MY GOD! I only go to close my eyes for a couple of hour and we've been left 400 votes?!

This Bloom fans are SCARY!

C'MON LADIES! LETS CLICK the vote buttons!

Those bloomin' Bloom fans are getting ahead of us tasteful, discerning ladies!

Well, I like Bloom too, but guess who I prefer...

Anyway, we can't let that happen!

Man, I miss a day and there's three pages to catch up on.  Have been dutifully voting but I'm not sure that reminder is working for me.  Do you have to make sure that screensavers are turned off?  I deleted it and redownloaded it....I'l wait and see if I hear the Professor after 15 minutes.

Oh nooo! Bloom is winning again! Get those voting fingers back to work!

Elaine,

Actually, I read in multiple places that AR did have a problem with guns in the movie......supposedly if you watch when he shoots Takagi (sp?) he fliches slightly.  I read or heard this a couple of times, I would have to go back and research where.  I went back and tried to see it, I guess I could kind of see what they meant.   I think it's an adorable quality!

Sue, the cheek of that seller! Beats me how they think they are going to get away with it, too!

 I think we are on a battle royal with Orlando fans right up until the last moment as they are obviously using the same tactics as we are. We shall just have to spread the word. I can't understand why Will Young has all those votes unless our gay friends are all voting for him! But I think he's out of the running now. Incidentally, I thought the little Bio that Hello have for AR was pretty good. I did not know of the problem he had on Die Hard with guns. Certainly no sign of it in the movie!

That's why you found it different. Am I wrong?

Ja ja ja ja ja ja ja!!! How funny!!

I mean, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Gotcha, yeah

Claudia, have you received my mail??

Nightynight

May I ask where you are from, Nahima? ... It's just that you used the word 'ja' ... =)

And yes he is no. 1 again! *evil grin*

Thank you for the kind welcome.

I will send my contact at http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/ an email and see what she says about your poll...

Oh if I could get my finger on that person on eBay I would simply poke her...hard...!

sue, don't forget to send a complaint as soon as you can tomorrow.  The last one I sent...the auction was removed in record time. 

*seething with you*

Bloody cheek That's my paper!!!!

Can't do anyhting now as I have to go to bed!!*seethes*

Quote:

Yeah, he's back on the 1st place !

HEY GIRLYZ AND GUYS LOL PLEASE PLEASE VOTE FOR ALAN

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/grand_finale2005/hombreatractivo.html?presentar=resultado&reciente=false&error=-6&reciente=false&error=-9

PLEASE VOTE;;!!!! <333

My eagle eye eBay pal has spotted another German auction. This is for a wallpaper that we believe might have been created by someone here or on an LJ. Does anyone know who this belongs to?

Tangled up in blue

Lol! Perhaps I'm in some weird mood today (and for that you'll have to excuse me), but in some way I find this hilarious! We are fighting against the BaBlooms!  With dirty tricks and all!

Claudia!!! I've been on here from time to time but having a full-time job can be rather...exhausting...

But my new year resolution is; spend more time on here! *wink* I love the chat! I spoke to emtee and Laurie the other day - they were so nice and fun to talk to...

Trouble is looks like they are doing the same thing

Yeah, Sue it's working most of the time for me as well.  Apart from the obvious fact that it's tallying another vote for Mr. Rickman - I'm also getting to hear The Voice every time the page refreshes.

Oh, and I'm glad you liked my Jack Nicholson post earlier in Vintage Meat.

Michelle, you might be onto something there. it's working for me most of the time. It could be coincidnece. I am coming back to this ppage refreshing this then going back and voting.

It's rather similar to my tactics when I entered a U2 contest about 600 times!!LOL

As of this time, we're only two votes behind Mr. Bloom.

Hi NativeMoon and welcome to our group!  I hope you will stay with us.  We're a great group.

Wowzers!  AR's ahead!  But only by a few votes. We need to stay on it and create a strong lead for him.  Geez, those Orlando fans are relentless! 

Sniv!!!! Where ya been, girl???  Its been way to long!

I don't know.......I go balance my bank statement (it did woohoo!) and watch a whodunnit and come back to find we are two behind!!

I've been messing around with the "Turn to Page 394" timer, and I'm not 100% if this is accurate but give it a try ...

Open up the website with the timer.  Vote.  Enter another website address and click "Go".  Then when you're at that website, click "back", so you arrive back at the Hello page.   You'll get the "Only vote once every 15 minutes" pop-up, but just click "Vote" again anyway.

I've been doing this for about 5 minutes now and everytime I hit vote, the counter has been going up by two votes.  That's like ... two votes every 3 seconds.

Maybe it's just me, let me know if it works for anyone else.

Last vote of the night, it jumped from 7809 to 7830!!

Will Young won Pop Idol some years ago and is one of the only ones from it that have stayed around *grrr*

Night folks and Happy New Year when it comes.

Leanne

-x-

Arghhh! According to my screen Bloom is no. 1 now! *gasp*

He's level pegging.Keep those votes coming!

oh dear...I was so excited about 2 votes ahead, but after reading through the posts I see that he's actually "lost" ground! Sorry *squelching excitment* egads...this is gonna be a nailbiter!

We're 2 votes ahead!!

I have to admit I wouldn't mind if Sean Bean got more votes...MmmMmm

But AR is still no. 1 in the poll! Woot!

Sniv, see my post of 9.14 am today for Will Young details.

Barabra, yes Aladdin was superb. Widow Twankey even had a LOTR moment when a ring was mentioned and her/his voice went all Gandalf-y!!

Don't worry, Nahima! Well it's probably just me then...getting demented and stuff like that...

Btw can anyone tell me who Will Young is? Is he a singer?...

A good friend of mine is one of the owners/webmasters...

What is it that you are aiming to do?

Excuse me Sniv, I missed your question.

No, I don't have a LJ. 

This is like Christmas again Alan 7304 OB 7237. Way to go Alan

Ooh, I see...

AHEAD!!!

(Watch out for my english, sorry)

Nahima - do you have a LJ? ...

46 votes above!!! (above or over?)

Whatever!!!

Alan is first at last!!!

36 ahead looks like Dee's hit those pcs!!

Hiya sue!!!  How are you?

Ohooo this is like winning the lottery...in some weird, cyber-twisted way!

 Hi Sniv!! Long time no see!!!

He's in the lead!!!! By 7 votes!!!

My page says;

AR - 7158

Bloom - 7153

!!!!

Sorry that should be 10, pressed the wrong number.

19 votes behind, come on girls get those fingers busy.

Hello,

Sooo close now in the Hello poll! From what I can see AR are about 11 votes behind! ...

I wish you all a happy new year!

-Sniv

Yes he does, but come on we can't have that kinda talk in here woman!!

Good idea to get the librarians clicking too!!

I nonchalantly wandered into my son's room and voted but when I suggested he kept the window open and clicked he said there was no way he was getting involved with anything to do with Hello. I di try my 18 yr old sons pc too but I couldn't even find the IE icon to log on in there!!

Ooh 6 behind now!!

Oooooo, only 20 votes apart! 

Note: earlier when I reloaded the page the votes were set at '6666' for AR.  eerie!

Dee, I was thinking, you work in a libary, right?  What's to stop  you from non-chalantly spending your days wandering from computer to computer, kind of on a continuous voting spree?  It would be for the cause, you know.