Register at PowerTogether.com, watch three webcasts about Windows Vista, wait six to eight weeks, and you’ll get a free legit copy of Windows Vista Business in the mail. You can do the same thing to get a free copy of Office 2007 as well.

Good luck registering. The site’s hammered. And yep, it’s legit.

Of all the versions of Vista they’re making, it really seems like Business is the one that everyone should get. Home Basic is crippled and doesn’t even include the new UI, Home Premium has completely superfluous ‘media center’ junk thrown in, and Ultimate is complete overkill.

Microsoft has a vague and un-helpful comparison chart on their site, but Paul Thurrott’s done a much, much more comprehensive job on his own. Home user or not, Vista Business is the one to own.

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I’ve never been looking through my friends’ friends on MySpace and found someone I’d recognized. I guess I somehow expected to one day be like “No WAY! Shaun knows Tavis TOO!? What a small world this is! My darling Internet, you hold such wonders!”

Maybe I just don’t know a whole lot of people.

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The King of Jingaling is back for what I think must be the third year of posting mp3 rips of old vinyl Christmas albums at FaLaLaLaLa.com.

Once there, click the ‘Featured Albums’ link on the right to go straight to the downloadables.

This year’s releases are crippled by RapidShare’s stupid countdown system, but you can grab the past two years’ releases direct from the server with no wait at all.

Remember in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure how he wound up riding his bike through all those sound stages to escape security? He rode through some Christmas shoot and yelled “Merry Christmas!” That cracks me up whenever I think about it.

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Major Nelson just posted instructions on how to apply for the Shadowrun beta test. Sign up now before they stop taking applications!

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Man what a weekend.

Thursday we went to Tammy’s parents for Thanksgiving. My parents came and we celebrated the coming together of Native Americans and their white oppressors with a turkey feast.

Friday our friend Denise turned 30 so that night a big group of us went to The Melting Pot. It’s a fondue restaurant. It’s expensive. In fact, The Melting Pot is what I call “stupid expensive” – expensive for no good reason. The food was great, but there’s no reason to ever pay that much for a meal. It wasn’t merely a case of sticker shock – it was sticker spit…as in, the sticker spit in my eye and made me angry. It was fun and a neat place to eat once, but I’ll do my best to never go back.

Saturday we attended Tammy’s boss’ son’s bar-mitzvah. That started at 9 in the morning and ran nearly three hours. Then at 6 that evening we attended a bar-mitzvah party at the Marconi Museum. That was some event. I guess bar-mitzvah parties are big things! They rented out this huge place…there were balloons everywhere, a DJ, one of those cartoon sketch artists, an open-bar, a huge buffet, an ice cream bar, a fondue dessert bar, and about 200 people. It could have been a wedding for all the money they spent on it. We had a great time.

Sunday morning we woke up at 4 so I could drive Tammy to LAX. She’s in Puerto Rico and Chicago this week. I got home around 7AM and slept a few more hours. I spent the rest of the day in front of a computer working on a website for my brother’s wedding. Yessir, my little brother is getting married. I’m the best man! I like to think that I’m always the best man in everything I do, but a wedding makes the title official.

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Why pay to download classic games from the Wii’s virtual console when you can run your own emulators for free?

Thanks to the Wii’s backwards compatibility with GameCube titles, you can boot up the GameCube flavor of Action Replay to launch SD Load, an application that lets you run any GC homebrew from an SD card.

On the GameCube you’ll need a separate SD reader, but on the Wii you can just use its own built-in SD slot.

Check out the video evidence!

I predict that within a matter of months we’ll use this boot method to install the Wii equivalent of the DS’s FlashMe – custom firmware that lets you run pretty much anything you want. It’ll happen. Just you wait.

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Will it blend?

That is the question.

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This guy in Toronto quit his IT job to become a bicycle courier. He wrote about it and it’s worth a read.

This is the first article at Kuro5hin that hasn’t made me roll my eyes in boredom after the first paragraph. I actually read the whole thing!

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I stopped by Target last night to pick up some new icicle lights for the house. The last two years I’ve always gotten screwed by waiting too long to buy Christmas lights, so I took care of it extra early this year and got the lights with the WHITE wire.

Does anyone even buy icicle lights with green wire? Seriously. Unless you’re Bilbo Baggins and you live in the side of a grassy green hill, those green wires are gonna look pretty ghetto hanging off of your stuccoed house.

Right next to the store entrance were a few tents. It turns out that there were half a dozen people camping out for a chance to buy a Wii:

They weren’t there for the PS3. They were wearing home-made Wii shirts. I bet this is because Target had their launch-day inventory numbers leak onto the internet last week. I also drove by Toys R Us, EB Games, and Best Buy…they didn’t have any campers!

So far Red Steel, Wii Sports, and Zelda have all been released online. They’re not playable yet, but give it time!

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This Sunday when hordes of video game fans will be trying to buy a Wii, I will be at Burger King.

That’s because Sunday is the day when Burger King releases Sneak King.

Sneak King is a game where you play as The King and you sneak around town surprising people with Burger King food before they pass out from hunger.

These three games are just $3.99 each.

The trailer for Sneak King is priceless.

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