gleans + 1xORA + 1xlagniappe + 1xaddenda at 4:10 PM MT, 4/4

 

Gates Sees Next Windows Version ‘Sometime’ in Next Year By REUTERS  The co-founder of Microsoft suggested that a successor to the Vista program might be released sooner than was generally expected.

DailyTech

FAQ: Reprieve or RIP for Windows XP?
Computerworld - By Gregg Keizer April 4, 2008 (Computerworld) As anticipated, Microsoft Corp. yesterday granted a partial pardon to its long-running Windows XP operating system, which had been slated for a forced retirement from new sales starting this year.
Windows 7, Successor To Vista, May Ship Next Year InformationWeek
Analyst Warned Microsoft About Vista, Low-Cost PCs CRN
PC Magazine - ADT Magazine - ZDNet - InternetNews.com
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today's Ordinary Reading Assignment

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould (Hardcover - Oct 2, 2007)

The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle by Bill Overton (Hardcover - Dec 10, 2007)

The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology - Edward Hirsch; Hardcover

 

lagniappe

Off Course

~ALISON BRACKENBURY

 

What had I heard

In the tall pine’s top, that cold Bank Holiday?

Was it a bird?

 

But what could fill the air

With a rattle, whirling like an army?

I should not have been there

 

On the green switchback paths the shooters trod.

White butterflies blew soundlessly.

Black deer sprang through the bog

 

Where I could not follow.

Woodpecker, buzzard, crake,

Rang in my skull’s round hollow

That sound no bird can make.

 

 

Alison Brackenbury: poet

Alison Brackenbury is a widely-published and award-winning poet, whose site includes new poems, book information, background information, poetry links and a contact form.

 

addenda <== thanks to BB-Bob

Subject: Different Views for the Same Virtual World

Date: Apr 4, 2008 2:18 PM

mendicot (mendicot@yahoo.com*) has sent you an article from TechnologyReview.com! Click below to read the article: Different Views for the Same Virtual World Flash technology developed by Multiverse brings new flexibility to 3-D virtual worlds. By Erica Naone