Office 2007: Microsoft shoots itself in the foot?
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008
I have the, dubious, pleasure of working at a place where the migration from Office 2003 to 2007 is halfway done.  Now, usually this should be no problem, but a couple of factors have cooperated to make it one.
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UN General Assembly votes for world wide suspension of executions
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007

 "The global campaign against the death penalty secured a landmark victory on Tuesday when the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the call for a worldwide moratorium (suspension) on executions." //  http://www.amnesty.org

Other links:

UN General Assembly set to endorse call for halt to executions

US supreme court calls a halt to executions

Canada won't sponsor UN call to halt executions

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 December 2007 )
 
Why condoms are sold in packs of 3, 6, and 12
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Friday, 12 October 2007

A 12 year old boy was in a store with his dad.  When they passed the stand with condoms the boy asked his dad what they were.

The dad said, "Those are condoms, you use them when you want to have safe sex."

The boy asked, "Why are there only three in that pack?"

Dad said, "Because they are for high-school boys.  One for Friday, one for Saturday, and one for Sunday."

The boy pointed at another package, "Why are there six in that package, then?"

The dad said, "They are for college boys.  Two for Friday, two for Saturday, and two for Sunday."

Finally they boy asked, "And the twelve pack?"

The dad gets a bit tearyeyed.  "Yes my son, those are for married men.  One for january, one for february, one for mars..."

Last Updated ( Friday, 12 October 2007 )
 
The mystery of the magic file (or how i invented the .rte and .rtg file formats)
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Friday, 12 October 2007
I'm just back from a head spinning experience of extreme Windowsism.  A file that refused to be renamed, or deleted... until ten minutes later...
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Review: Knocked Up (2/5)
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Saturday, 06 October 2007

"Knocked Up" (IMDB , Amazon) is about Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) who gets drunk, has unprotected sex, gets pregnant and decides to keep it (or at least she does...)

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Newsflash

I've moved the hoakz.com website back to the www.hoakz.com domain.

Okay, in fact the move is still in progress, but I'm moving over pages (even the very oldest ones) as quickly as possible.

Hopefully this will not be too much of an inconvenience, if not, I'm sorry!

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