Articles and links on computers and Internet, programming, human rights, and creativity. http://www.hoakz.com 2008-11-20T08:54:52+01:00 text/html 2008-03-18T10:16:43+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/127/26/ 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. text/html 2007-12-19T09:53:06+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/123/2/ 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 (http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/un-calls-halt-executions-20071218)Other links:US supreme court calls a halt to executions (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2202885,00.html)Canada won't sponsor UN call to... text/html 2007-11-29T13:54:51+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/121/2/ In a historic vote, the Third Committe of the United Nations General Assembly adopted, on November 15th, a global moratorium on executions (read more here (http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-index-eng)). The same date, United States supreme court stayed the execution of Mark Schwab (read more here (http://tcadp.net/2007/11/16/general-assembly-committee-backs-global-moratorium-against-death-penalty/)).A VERY good start! text/html 2007-10-12T13:09:39+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/116/30/ 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... text/html 2007-10-12T10:42:08+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/115/26/ 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... text/html 2007-10-06T04:53:40+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/114/30/ Knocked Up (IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478311/) , Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?ie=UTF8 keywords=knocked%20up%20Katherine%20Heigl tag=hoakzspages-21 index=blended linkCode=ur2 camp=1634 creative=6738)) is about Ben (Seth Rogen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736622/)) and Alison (Katherine Heigl (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001337/)) who gets drunk, has unprotected sex, gets pregnant and decides to keep it (or at least she does...) text/html 2007-10-01T22:14:56+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/108/30/ The European Commission has just announced an agreement that English will be the official language of the EU - rather than German (the other possibility).As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5-year phase-in of new rules,... text/html 2007-10-01T22:10:46+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/107/30/ A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead. text/html 2007-09-21T00:57:35+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/101/2/ A prime example of the fine art of tyranny as police officers uses a taser on a student who doesn't want to stop speaking... Unless, of course he was a threat while lying handcuffed on the floor... Here are two clips from youtube:clip1 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag)clip2 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=7NWukZhsiBw) text/html 2007-09-20T22:48:55+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/99/2/ Human Rights Watch reports that seven male tibetan students are being detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of writing pro-tibetan slogans on buildings. One of the detainees, a fourteen year old is reported to have been beaten badly.Read more here >> (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/09/20/china16924.htm) text/html 2007-09-18T20:50:18+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/97/30/ What is marriage?Marriage is when you get to keep your girlfriend and doesn't have to return her to her parents.- Erik, 6 years It is when you have been going out for a while and the boy proposes to the girl. He says: I take you to keep... text/html 2007-09-18T20:36:22+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/96/30/ A guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves.They continue to see each other regularly, and after a... text/html 2007-09-04T14:24:02+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/89/27/ Or how I came to realize I could live a life time without .NET and be just as happy. text/html 2007-08-19T08:24:18+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/80/26/ Moblock (moblock-deb) (http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/) is a so called traffic blocker. It prevents connections from certain IP numbers (defined in block lists) to gain access to your computer. The whole purpose is that the blocked IP numbers usually belongs to this or that organization that wishes to find out more... text/html 2007-08-17T12:08:52+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/75/26/ BasKet (http://basket.kde.org/) is a very nice application I just stumbled across. It runs under Linux, and in Ubuntu (probably Debian and others as well) it can be managed as a regular package.I'm using it mostly when writing and ordering ideas and the like, but I can see myself doing... text/html 2007-08-17T10:31:46+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/74/26/ ASP.NET 2.0 apparently has a vulnerability when doing url rewriting, making it possible for Googlebot (and possibly other search engine bots as well?) to crash a .NET 2.0 site. Read more on todotnet.com (http://todotnet.com/archive/0001/01/01/7472.aspx) text/html 2007-08-16T01:00:56+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/41/2/ Human Rights News reports on a Sri Lankan under the age of 18 on death row (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/07/30/saudia16531.htm): Sri Lankan Under 18 at Time of Alleged Killing The Saudi Court of Appeals should recognize that a foreign worker on death row was a child at the time of her alleged... text/html 2007-08-15T15:38:33+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/23/2/ Amnesty expresses deep concern regarding the execution of a minor in Saudi Arabia. According to sources the execution took place the 21 of July in the town Taif. text/html 2007-07-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/106/27/ This is an article on how to add a javascript function that will be run when a webpage has loaded. text/html 2007-05-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.hoakz.com http://www.hoakz.com/content/view/16/29/ Does evolution really work? Has it really made us what we are today? Surely the chance of just randomly creating human life must be zero many times over , right?