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 :)

In the season of the Holidays, I was tonight’s Table Topics Master at the Woodridge Toastmasters and was slated to come up with some “Quotes” from the holidays, so those contained below are the quotes which were spoke about “impromptu” this evening.

(My sources for these quotes were a random series of google queries :))

• People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.  ~Author Unknown

• He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
  He who makes one is a fool.
  ~F.M. Knowles

• We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.  ~Ellen Goodman

• Expecting the world to treat you fairly
  because you are a good person
  is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
  because you are a vegetarian.
  -DENNIS WHOLEY:

• “I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” -Henry Youngman

• “Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.” –Unknown

• “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” –Erma Bombeck

• “The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.” –Jay Leno

• This is not a time for resolutions but for setting of goals.   What is a goal you plan to set for yourself, Personally or Professionally

• Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm

• Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special!  How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer…. Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

So, think about these and how would you respond if you’ve been put on the spot to talk (somehow) about these subjects if you were given this quote and were asked to talk about it for 1-2 minutes

Those of you who have already entered into This is the spirit of giving! Get your Vista on-! Free Giveaways! that is great! If you haven’t entered yet, go post your comment, tweet, digg or whatever for your chance to win those two books and a copy of Vista Ultimate!

The holidays are not over yet! There will be some more prizes for the winning over the next week or so, including: Another copy of Vista (32bit only), a Zune and who knows what else I have in store (Seriously, I don’t even know yet!) (Oh, and a copy of Norton 360) and whatnot!

So, go get your prize on! Comment (Here, there or everywhere) and lets make the running for these prizes a decent one! I’ll stop giving away if I don’t get any interest?!

Oh, who wants some Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 25user Cal! (I still have a bunch of those! :)) (And may have some Microsoft Exam vouchers to give away soon!)

Happy Holidays!

@cxi