Articles posted on June 21st, 2004

Euro 2004: First Round, Group B, Day 3

Monday, June 21st, 2004 • 9:38 am

Finally. Finally Thierry Henry has started scoring. And finally France has started scoring from open play and not a set piece — although Thierry’s second goal was mostly a solo effort, so they have yet to score a beautiful collective goal. But at least we are heading in the right direction… However, there were still […]

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National Post: Canadian iTunes ‘on Steve Jobs’ radar’

Monday, June 21st, 2004 • 5:26 am

Encouraging news for Canadians, who saw Apple launch its iTunes Music Store in some European countries a month ago, without a word about a Canadian store. Canada’s National Post has an interview with EMI Music vice-chairman and North American chief executive David Munns, in which he’s quoted as saying: “I saw Steve Jobs [last week] […]

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Word 2004: Bug with ‘etc.’ in French spelling engine still not fixed

Monday, June 21st, 2004 • 4:01 am

For this one, Microsoft doesn’t have the excuse that the bug is difficult to reproduce. It’s a 100% reproducible bug. It happens every time the French spell checker encounters the word etc. in a Word document. As I’ve reported before (about Word X), every time Word’s French spell checker encounters the word etc., it stops […]

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Euro 2004: First Round, Group A, Day 3

Monday, June 21st, 2004 • 12:27 am

A decent day in the competition, with Portugal getting the all-important win against Spain (their first in ages) that sees them through to the quarter-finals, and Greece qualifying ahead of Spain in spite of their defeat 1-2 against the Russians, because, all other things with Spain being equal (one win, one draw, one loss each; […]

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