Articles posted on June 28th, 2004

Canadian elections: Minority government for a majority of socially progressive voters

Monday, June 28th, 2004 • 11:36 pm

It is of course rather difficult to analyze the results of yesterday’s elections here in Canada. Paul Martin got the tap on the wrist that he deserved for all the scheming that led him to the position of being the Prime Minister without having been elected to that office. He also got a whack on […]

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Euro 2004: Quarter-Finals, Czech Republic 3 – Denmark 0

Monday, June 28th, 2004 • 10:55 pm

The ultimate outcome of this last quarter-final was hardly a surprise, and the manner in which it happened wasn’t particularly surprising either. Things were rather tentative in the first half, which ended 0-0, but after the break the Czechs were all over the Danes and the final score could have been even worse. The Danes […]

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Word 2004: More on disappearing I-beam cursor

Monday, June 28th, 2004 • 4:01 am

Last week I reported on a new bug in Word 2004 that causes the I-beam cursor (blinking insertion bar that indicates where you are in the text) to disappear and makes it difficult to determine where you are in your text. At the time I said that I wasn’t able to reproduce the bug reliably. […]

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