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Giveaway Triggered in CodeWeaver's Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge; "We take full responsibility for global economic collapse," says CEO

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (October 27, 2008) – The catastrophic cratering of the global economy, falling gas prices and President George W. Bush's recent executive activities have indirectly prompted Saint Paul gadfly software developers CodeWeavers, Inc., to provide free software for every American on Oct. 28, company officials reluctantly announced today.

In July, CodeWeavers – whose software lets Mac OS X and Linux users run Windows programs without having to Microsoft for a Windows OS license – launched the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge (lameduck.codeweavers.com) to encourage President Bush to make the most of his remaining days in office by accomplishing a major economic or political goal by January 20, 2009.

The goals focused on President Bush making specific positive accomplishments in areas such as the economy, home values, the stock market, the war on terror and other key issues. Specifically, one goal called for President Bush to help down bring average gasoline prices in the Twin Cities to $2.79 a gallon.

On Monday, Oct. 14, gas prices in Minneapolis and St. Paul did just that.

"That morning, I was filling my tank at Big Steve's Gas Palace in St. Paul," said Jeremy White, president and CEO of CodeWeavers. "I had just finished my morning corn dog and 64-ounce Dr. Pepper when I looked at the pump and noticed gas was at $2.79. I screamed ‘Woohoo,' then I yelled ‘Oh, crap!' as I realized every American can now have my software for free. Kind of upsets my fourth quarter revenue projections..."

White admits this is not how he foresaw the Challenge unfolding.

"I launched the campaign to inspire President Bush to make the most of his final days in office. Who knew that our Challenge would have this kind of impact on the country?" White said. "On the other hand, who knew that the economy would implode, causing oil demand to drop into the abyss and gas prices to plummet as well. Clearly, investigating Bear Stearns, AIG and those guys is misplaced – CodeWeavers is responsible for this mess. So it's free software for all!"

How to Get the Free Software
On Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, any one visiting the CodeWeavers' Web site (www.codeweavers.com) will be given a deal code that will entitle them to one free copy of CodeWeavers' award-winning CrossOver software. Each copy comes complete with support.

"I realize that by giving away all my software, I've caused horrific damage to my company's bottom line," White said. "In fact, our vice president of sales wretched Starbucks all over his shirt when he learned the news. But, I figure, the way the economy is going, in a few months everyone might be out on the streets, wearing potato sacks and standing in line for squirrel soup, so why not?"

White also noted that if other Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge goals are met, CodeWeavers will once again provide free software. Goals include:

* Return the stock market to it's 2008 high
* Reduce the average price of a gallon of milk to $3.50
* Create at least one net job in the U.S. this calendar year
* Return the median home price to its Jan. 1, 2008 level
* Bring Osama Bin-Laden to justice

About CodeWeavers

Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers today focuses on the development of Wine: the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company's goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Mac OS X and Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the UK and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.

Obama

Just in case you didn't know, redistribution of wealth is SOCIALISM.

From wikipedia:
Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.

Additionally raising taxes for some won't help the economy.

Just my 2¢

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Sorry for the time away...we've been extremely busy. Not that being busy is some kind of great excuse, but anyway, I digress...

Things are going well here. We've been getting ready for Halloween; Grace is going to be a cowgirl this year. I will post pictures after the fact but it's a really cute costume.

I'm already on the prowl looking out for the mischievous pumpkin smashers that appear each year and smash everyone's pumpkins here in our subdivision. Last year I was very close to catching them. If they come around this year, I won't be close, I'll catch them. I'm tired of wasting my money each year on our pumpkins only to have them be destroyed by some kids in the neighborhood with nothing better to do. Not only is it the money we lose but it's devastating to Grace because we work hard going to the pumpkin farm and pick out just the right pumpkins. Then she colors them and we put them out on the porch as our Halloween decorations. When she has seen that her pumpkins have been missing in the previous years she has been very disappointed. I'm tired of seeing her little disappointed face.

Enough of Halloween...this also means we're approaching the end of the year. Can you believe it? It's hard to believe there is only about 66 days left in the year? WOW! Which means it's only around 90 days until our new baby will be here. WOW! Guess we should start getting ready for that huh?

We did do some house planning today by finally coming up with a plan for our kitchen. If you'll recall we closed in the wall between the kitchen and the family room downstairs so that we could put cabinets on that wall in the kitchen. We went to my favorite store and saw a kitchen planner and between her ideas and our ideas we hammered out a plan that I think will fix most of our problems. As we had originally envisioned we'll put a pantry on our new wall. That wall will also get lower cabinets with a counter on top of them and upper cabinets above that. The wall with the stove and refrigerator remains unchanged and the other wall will change by moving the sink under the window (thank you!) and moving the dishwasher over at the same time between the sink and the sliding door. This opens up the area to the left of the sink for more counter space.

So with all of these changes we'll gain more counter space and a lot more cabinet space. And our kitchen should actually hold our food and cooking utensils and devices. Plus I was impressed with the total price for all the cabinets in the kitchen; much less than I expected, not that we have that much money...

As far as the playset and landscaping are concerned, my "expert" analysis was correct as the landscaping company came the next day and took away six inches of soil so that we could put in the playset and mulch. It took 2 1/2 days to put the playset up and then it took another day to put the mulch in. It will probably end up taking more time and effort to remove the old playset. Not because it was well constructed or well put-together. But the years it had been there made it more difficult to take apart plus there was the cement on the bottom that had to be broken up. I've done all of that and moved the cement pieces behind the shed to hide them. Now comes the problem of disposing of the pressure-treated lumber that made up the old playset.

I made it a point to call our disposal company and specifically ask how they would like me to handle getting rid of this wood. They asked how much I had and I tried to describe as best I could over the phone. After this they stated to just put it out with my regular pickup and the driver should take it. They didn't so I called back. They said they'd have the driver return on Friday (Wednesday is our normal pickup day) and pick it up. The next day she calls back and said the driver stated it was not a small playset, but a LARGE playset and that it couldn't possibly be picked up with our normal garbage pickup. Are you kidding me? A LARGE playset? It's not even an entire playset! It's just the tower portion of a small playset to begin with. I didn't even put the whole thing out because I couldn't have anything longer than 5 feet and I didn't have the time to cut those pieces down.

Anyway, it all boils down to the fact that they want $15 to pick it up our old playset. Expensive - not at all. A relative bargain when you consider my other options: 1-800-got-junk would probably charge over $200 to do this, although they would also remove the cement that the garbage company won't take, and if I take it to the dump myself they have a minimum charge no matter how much you bring there and while I don't remember what that charge is, I know it's significantly higher than $15. If you think about the garbage company not taking cement, it really doesn't make sense, they won't take cement and they specifically told me to take it to the dump myself. However, where does our garbage go? The dump maybe???? Anyway, maybe it's just a weight issue with carrying cement along with all the other garbage.

So I've played along, but I'm going to document photographically everything that I'm putting out this week for my $15. Which I will be putting everything out for that extra charge. And I will share my documentation with the office staff so that they know exactly how much the driver is considering "excessive" for a regular pickup. My contention here is that the driver didn't want to pick it up and just said it was too much for a regular pickup and/or they just want more money from me. Whether I get my $15 back...who knows, but it's worth a shot. Why waste $15 just because I might have a lazy garbage driver.

Grace's birthday turned out great. We decided to have a horse-themed party here at the house instead of the actual horse farm in exchange for inviting more people to her party. So we invited 15 kids to the party. It turned out really well; almost everyone came and I think they all had a great time. I know Grace had a great time! Which reminds me...we have to get those thank-you's out.