Because of several problems with the system, I wasn’t able to get the coupon discounts to work before. It is now up and running on our online store, and you’ll be able to receive the special discount for the Easter mEgg Hunt.

In fact, as a way of making amends for any difficulty to those who couldn’t find the easter egg coupon, I’m posting it here so you won’t be hampered by the search. Our Easter mEgg Hunt coupon code is FABERGE1842, and the last day it will remain valid is April 6, 2008.

And an extra in fact, I’ll be issuing refunds for all purchases made during this period at our online store in the amount of the Easter mEgg Hunt discount [Done.]. So if you haven’t received your refund by the end of this day, please let me know and I’ll correct that for you.

If you weren’t participating in the hunt, please do, as it’s fun to watch the eggs collect in your basket as you visit the vendors taking part. Plus, you get the same 20% discount on their products as well!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to continue hibernating for the night before resuming work on Oneill (Mori 1.7) in the morning.

Happy (Belated) Easter and Spring Season!

UPDATE 2008-03-28 5:06PM EDT: And, not really. Seems my coupon system is only using the coupon once, and then I have to reset it. I’m going to work on it some more.

For years, you and your mealy-mouthed predecessors have promised to make things work, and make things better. And for years you’ve complained that whenever you tried to fix things somebody else threw up roadblocks. “It’s the President’s fault.”, “It’s Congress’ fault.”, or “It’s the lobbyists’ fault.” And if only you had more time, and more of our money, you’d be able to fix things. But the only thing you manage to do is spend more time and spend more money and things don’t get fixed.

But now, we’ve discovered this thing called the Internet (it’s a series of tubes), and while it’s been fun to share our home videos and prank one another, we’ve also gotten to talking with our fellow Americans. And something that keeps coming up in our conversations is that our country’s in very bad shape, and you’re not doing your job.

You had the budget thing tolerable for a while, but then you went and spent us back into a deficit. Then the terrorists attacked and things were really bad. But we supported you when you said we had to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden, but it’s been nearly eight years. For all the money you spent, why don’t you have bin Laden?

Then you insisted that we had to go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein had WMDs, but he didn’t actually have WMDs. And he went into hiding, and you found him hiding in a hole, this guy who didn’t have anything. You found him hiding in a hole, but you haven’t found bin Laden, the terrorist who funded attacks in America.

And it’s interesting that you aren’t willing send your own kids to fight this war that was so important to you. This war to protect U.S. interests, you said. The rest of us have lost loved ones and real Americans in our cities and hometowns, folks who give our small communities meaning and a sense of honor. You’ve given us draped coffins and broken men and women, some missing limbs, some missing their former souls, but you haven’t given us your own sons and daughters, nor have you given us bin Laden.

This “important” war has taken longer to finish then the Second World War, in which we fought Nazi Germany and Italy across the Atlantic, and Imperialist Japan across the Pacific. We fought three countries. Countries that had real, dedicated armies. At the same time. From an economic depression. And We won. But that’s because you weren’t in charge back then, because you can’t even beat the leftover enemies of one country that has little more than sand, and we’re paying for you to use fancy (and expensive, I might add) planes, tanks, bombs and satellites which you like to blow up. And yet you still haven’t found bin Laden.

And now our economy’s again in the toilet because folks don’t want our money. You give Canadians the right to buy normal, tasty thin American bacon instead of that round stuff they had to eat because their dollar was worth less, but you don’t give us bin Laden!

You give us airport security that hassles and harasses us, but doesn’t stop weapons from being smuggled onboard planes. You give us illegal aliens crossing our borders. You give us banks that overcharge us on fees and interest rates. You give us homes that are worth less. You give us $100/bbl oil, and $3 gas. You give us colors that tell us our phone calls can be tapped, and that we can’t take pictures of buildings because Americans are up to no good. But you still haven’t given us bin Laden.

Some of us made lists of things that we weren’t happy with, of how you haven’t been doing your job like you’re supposed to, and how you’re not helping anyone but yourselves and your friends. And we don’t like that at all. At first, some of us thought we just might be unusual, crackpots on the fringe of society. But the more we started having our own chats with others across this country, the more we realized we are not alone; that many others are fed up with the nonesense you’ve been pulling. And some started reminding us that when the Constitution talks about who the bosses are in this country, “We the people” are the ones it’s talking about.

And we’re taking charge again, as you can see.

So the 30% of us who remembered we are the bosses are getting together with the 70% of those who forgot, or felt their votes don’t count. And we’re also coordinating a united action: come November, we’re handing you your walking papers. We won’t be coughing. We won’t be throwing sweaters. We won’t be heckling you. Come November, you’re fired.

The Citizens (and real bosses) of The U.S.A

Just a simple reminder, if you’ve got questions or suggestions regarding any Apokalypse products, I invite you to post them at the forums if they’ll be of benefit and/or interest to the communities which use the products.

Post feature requests and bug reports so I keep track of what needs to be done to keep these products relevant to the work you do. The issue tracking system even has a polling feature which allows you to vote on the most important issues for you.

For any communication which doesn’t apply to the community of users here, I invite you to contact me via private correspondence or iChat/AIM/IRC (huperniketes).

However, if you just want to know what’s currently transpiring, and what’s going on in-between the lengthy times between my irregular posts (I’ve got a huge backlog of unfinished posts, I do apologize), there’s another way to see what I’m up to. That technique is through the Twitter service.

Here’s a simple description of how Twitter is useful for me to keep you aware of what’s going on:

Ed Yourdon, whose Techniques of Program Structure and Design revolutionized my thinking and methods in developing software, has written a great example of why I use Twitter.

I invite you to follow my tweets, or those for Mori and Clockwork product info. I also invite you to sign up and send your own message to any of those accounts.