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title: "Win A Free pass to the PDC!"
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published: "2003-10-01T17:49:00"
updated: "2003-10-01T17:49:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Yup - Wintellect is giving away a free pass. You'll have to pay all other associated costs of the trip. But this is huge! You guys rock. (hooray Sara!!!!!) http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx [ Julie Lerman ] Oh…"
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# Win A Free pass to the PDC!

By Roy Osherove October 1, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Yup - Wintellect is giving away a free pass. You'll have to pay all other associated costs of the trip. But this is huge! You guys rock. (hooray Sara!!!!!)

[_http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx_](http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx)

\[[Julie Lerman](http://weblogs.asp.net/jlerman/posts/30030.aspx)\]

Oh this is definitely exciting! I might actually have a shot at going (although a looong one!). One thing I noticed on the form is that they expect a US phone number. But they don't mention anything about what countries are eligible for this. So I entered.

One “thing” in the for though: The phone number should be entered like this:

xxx-xxx-xxxx  or like this  (xxx)xxx-xxxx

Mind you - all the hyphens matter!. I had to view-source on the page to find out what the required field validator needed as a regex - maybe it's like a puzzle you have to solve to prove your worthiness? ;)

Anyway - good luck , to me and all other participants. May the luckiest soul win :)

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- Sep 30, 2003

    ### [Google Frequent Searchers tool](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/30/google-frequent-searchers-tool.html)

- Sep 29, 2003

    ### [PDC hype is really really really annoying!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/pdc-hype-is-really-really-really-annoying.html)


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