Archives December 2008

For those of you who saw this Tweet that I tweeted from @CXI, our good friend @chrispirillo has a little Contest going on for the holidays, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Chris Pirillo is participating in Receiving the Gift of Giving, under the Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish effort.

So, I encourage you who are interested in winning or just helping out in this spirit of giving, to check out Chris Pirillos Receiving the Gift of Giving post!

Thanks everyone and have a happy Holidays! :)

Hey everyone who participated in this contest, I want to thank you and I appreciate your interest in getting some of the many things I have so you can use any benefit from them!

After tallying the responses when I closed the contest this Friday, and running it through my random ‘winner’ picker, we have a winner! Brian J. Greenberg is indeed our official winner!

Brian’s Blog found here will be the bearer of this, and special thanks to his tweet on twitter from @bjgreenberg.

So, the next contest will be announced on Monday, either for a Zune, a copy of Vista (32bit) or who knows… but that is my plan for kicking it off on Monday (hopefully, if life doesn’t happen!;))

Thanks, and the determination of how long to keep the contest open is derived based upon the number of entries divided by the number of hits/interest, so I look forward to the next one!

Thanks everyone!

Christopher – @cxi

That’s right! It’s not Black Friday, It’s not Cyber Monday, it’s not even Taco Tuesday!

But VMware has brought back the deal of a lifetime again! The money off on Workstation and Fusion! Our good friend Mr Duncan cites the whole deal right here for you to work from!

Enter the coupon code “VMWHAPPYHOLIDAYS” in the “Promo Code”

And don’t forget to take advantage of your Competitive Rebate for $30!

So get out there and get deals like this! Never hurts to save if you’re going to spend anyway!

Enter the coupon code “VMWHAPPYHOLIDAYS” in the “Promo Code”

So, if you’re looking at Fusion, Workstation or even VI! Get out there and pay less for it!

This promotion will be good through 11:59PM PT on 1/15/09.

I came across the most amazing website today! Apparently Glaceau.com wants you to WAIT to see their website.  I guess this is in respect to not showing you some kind of error, they’ll let you sit there for what may seem like an infinite amount of time staring at this.

You know, good things to come to those who wait, those who close that damn tab and move on to another site.  Sorry guys, but seriously?! and 00%? Couldn’t code it for 0%?!

And if you do finally get past that initialization point, they treat you with a patronizing tone:

While I love your product, I cannot stand your web attitude.

One of our Twitter Tools wasn’t working (Damn upgrading accidentally!)

If you’re one of those folks who has upgraded Twitter Tools beyond 1.1b1 and want to get it working again, here are the steps I’ve taken (consistently) to get it working.

Deactivate Twitter Tools:

Downgrade Twitter Tools with version 1.1b1 (size:69,478)

Upload twitter-tools.php into the /wp-content/plugins/twitter-tools directory

Drop your Database (wp_ak_twitter) – phpMyAdmin if you can

DROP TABLE `wp_ak_twitter`;

Tweet a bit in the hopes it makes a difference (It won’t :))

And eventually, after an unknown period of time (perhaps tied to API calls) it will start working.

Tweets will then show up on your blog, and when you post entries to your blog, they will tweet on Twitter on your behalf.   Typically, once you’ve done this it should work within 1-2 hrs.

Disclaimer: This is for people who use Twitter Tools and it stops working after upgrading.  I’m not sure why, nor do I really care why, when it fulfills a specific purpose for me :)