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Just wait a Gates’ breath
Is it me, or is does it seem to take longer each day for certain software to open on Microsoft machines?
You click on a document icon and nothing appears to happen.
You click again. Then again. Then again.
Finally the egg-timer appears but this seems to slow the system even further.
Finally your Word document – or whatever [...]
Where on earth is Gdynia?
Details of the new global Monopoly board have been revealed and the only Australian city to make it is Sydney.
Hardly surprising really. The national capital Canberra never really stood a chance.
The New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma is crowing in The Australian’s report “Sydney monopolises world Monopoly spot”.
“Eat your heart out Melbourne … nowhere to [...]
Are the Olympics being blamed for everything?
Here’s one out of left-field.
The Beijing Olympics are now being blamed for a slump in Australia’s wool prices!
The ABC’s report “Olympic Games blamed for slump in wool prices” says prices have dropped 200 cents a kilo to just 830 cents. (That’s a drop of $2 to $8.30/kg in English.)
How are the Olympics to be blamed [...]