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Thread #59418 Message #2018232
Posted By: Amos
06-Apr-07 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Ummm...so you can see the screen? I dunno!
In other news, the man who tortured office staff in every civilized country in the world and wasted billions of dollars in manpower over twenty years through system freezes, lost documents, and incompatible files, is leaving town big-time:
"Fifth space tourist set to blast off
08:28 06 April 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
Microsoft's former chief architect Charles Simonyi is preparing to become the fifth private citizen to take a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Saturday.
Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov will be ferrying Simonyi to the station. Their Soyuz rocket is scheduled to take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1730 GMT (1330 EDT).
Simonyi, the man behind Microsoft's Word and Excel programmes, says he has enjoyed the months he has spent training for the trip in Russia. "I view the space flight as kind of an exclamation point at the end of a very long sentence," Simonyi recently told reporters."
That's a poetic sentiment, but I notice no-one asked him what the sentence said or what court imposed it on him.
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