Editors note: Cringely has taken the rest of the week off (frankly, we haven't seen him since the office party two nights ago), so we hired old Tin Pan Alley songmeister Skip McJingle to reinvigorate some holiday classics with high tech themes. Feel free to sing along. Vista Wonderland (sung to the tune of "Winter Wonderland") Laptop's on... is it frozen? No that's just Windows loading Your workday has stalled Y Editors note: Cringely has taken the rest of the week off (frankly, we haven’t seen him since the office party two nights ago), so we hired old Tin Pan Alley songmeister Skip McJingle to reinvigorate some holiday classics with high tech themes. Feel free to sing along. Vista Wonderland (sung to the tune of “Winter Wonderland”) Laptop’s on… is it frozen? No that’s just Windows loading Your workday has stalled Your PC now crawls Working in a Vista Wonderland iPod fails, needs new software Microsoft — why should they care? You’ll soon grow quite sick Of confirming each click Working in a Vista Wonderland When there’s trouble you’ll call their support crew And provide a credit card or two You’ll reach a technician named Narasu And he’ll help you to endlessly reboot Later on, when you downgrade Old XP will seem so great And you will regret The time that you spent Working in a Vista Wonderland The NSA is Comin’ to Tap (sung to the tune of “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”) You better not surf You better not chat Watch your IMs I’m tellin’ you that The NSA is comin’ to tap They’re makin’ a list And checking it twice They’ll know when you give al Queda advice The NSA is comin’ to tap They’ll read all of your email They’ll know just what you say They’ll pack you on a plane and ship you Straight to Guantanamo Bay AT&T, Verizon and Qwest MCI, Sprint, and all of the rest The NSA is comin’ to tap The Cringemass Song (sung to the tune of “The Christmas Song”) Ballmer’s throwing furniture again Google does just what they please Facebook wants to throw sheep at your friends Before Yahoo turns them in to the Chinese Everbody knows, Bit Torrent and encryption may Help make Comcast’s network blue The RIAA and the MPAA Will find there’s no one left to sue We know that Jobs is on his way He’s bringing lots of iPhone goodies on his sleigh And to the Apple blogs each Mac fanboy will cling To see if he’ll stop and say, “Just one more thing…” And so I’m offering this simple phrase To geeks from one to 92 Thanks for reading this blog every day Merry Christmas to you Got more holiday cheer? Share it here or email it to Cringe. He’ll get it eventually, we hope. Software DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business