{"id":1812,"date":"2008-05-07T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2008-05-08T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T23:02:21","slug":"off-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Off-ice."},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span> couple of observations:\n<\/p>\n

I follow the US Democratic race but tend to keep it off xsamplex: However, I keep thinking if the Clintons are just bad losers<\/a>. Seriously, when is enough is enough<\/em>? Keith Olberman’s summary perfectly illustrates the race<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

I noticed something when using a (more) recent version of Microsoft Word (2003+): it loads documents in a background thread, updating the scrollbar and thumbnail size accordingly, until it is completely loaded into memory. I’m not sure who thought this was a brilliant idea, because, simply stated: it sucks because it suggests that the document is ready to work on<\/em> when it clearly isn’t.\n<\/p>\n

With the sun coming out longer, it appears that now it’s a good time to get rid of the Winter clothes. This is obviously good weather for a stroll and the camera.\n<\/p>\n

I read that thousands of illegals<\/a> keep eluding the Canadian Border and Imigration Services (the official count is at 41,000). Is that a high number, I wonder (I wish I had numbers of other countries).\n<\/p>\n

In the past, I’ve read a couple of books by Martin Amis (son of Kingsley Amis, who’s books were, and maybe still are, part of English literature classes in The Netherlands). I especially liked ‘Time’s Arrow’<\/a> but since then, I’ve not read any of his books. The CBC has a brief interview<\/a> with the (nowadays controversial) British author.\n<\/p>\n

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Update 1:<\/em> Not at all related, OpenOffice 3.0 Beta review<\/a>, courtesy of ArsTechnica.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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