On 30 January 2007, Microsoft will be making Windows Vista available to the world at large.  This event goes by different monikers:  "general availability," "GA" and "retail availability" are some of them.  But no matter what it's called, lots of people -- I for one -- are looking forward to that day.  As excitement builds, we've seen that some enthusiasts are marking the occasion in different ways; one to just recently hit our radar is Donavon West's design of a Windows Sidebar Gadget that counts down the days, hours and seconds until midnight of GA Day.

Donavon has created three similar versions of his gadget:  one for Live.com pages, another for Windows Live Spaces, and a third for installation to the Windows Vista Sidebar.