Beer Exchange Meme

By Gaz under Ramblings

Earlier today, I found Ankesh Kothari’s Buy Me a Beer plugin, and reasoning that a man can never have too much beer, installed it right away. It turns out that something in the plugin doesn’t agree with WP-2.1, so I had to hand code a work-a-like into my sidebar. Ankesh, I’ll certainly buy a beer for you when you fix the plugin…

I’ve participated in several Memes recently, and thought it was about time I started one of my own. I’d like to incorporate my near legendary love of Guinness into this meme. Here are the rules:

1. If you haven’t already, you’ll need to signup for a PayPal business account so that you can receive payments. It only takes a few minutes to sign up.
2. If you have a blog, either install Ankesh Kothari’s Buy Me a Beer plugin on your wordpress blog, or paste some variant of the code below into an appropriate place. If you don’t have a blog, you can still participate by including a version of this code that points to your PayPal account in a comment on this post:
   

   <form name="beerexchangememe" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
            target="paypal" method="post">
     <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
     <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[your PayPal account email]" />
     <input type="hidden" name="return" value="" />
     <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Beer Exchange" />
     <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="$4" />
     <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&\
       business=[your PayPal account email]&amount=$4&\
       item_name=Beer+Exchange+Meme" target="paypal">Buy Me a Beer</a>
   </form>
   

3. Work through the comments on this post and follow each of the links to buy a beer for each of the commenters on this post, and then add your own to the end. If you don’t like beer, then a glass of wine or a cup of coffee is fine too. Just like when you go to the pub, arriving early means you buy a smaller round, and then reap the benefits of a beer from everyone else that arrives after you.
4. Feel free to tag your friends, and have them join in too — I’ll start the ball rolling by tagging everyone who has passed a Meme to me recently…
5. When you’ve collected enough beer for a serious session of drinking, have someone photograph or video the proceedings and post the results back to your blog.

This is a pretty cheap way to get some free links to your blog, and some free beer too! Aside from the Do Follow link you’ll get from the comment you leave, I’ll also link back to all participants’ photos. If you don’t want to buy a whole round, but do want to contribute towards seeing the photographic evidence of my attempt at the world record for most Guinness consumed in 24 hours, please feel free to Buy Me a Guinness!

I tag Ian, Charity and Bill! Remember first to respond buys the smallest round…