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V8s Girls strut their stuff on the grid

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:41:59 GMT

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Girls strut their stuff on the grid

Serenaded by the relentless roar of V8 engines and egged on by a sea of drooling men, 28 bikini clad Grid Girls fought it out for the inaugural Miss Hamilton 400 title at the weekend.

In less than tropical temperatures the contestants shivered yet smiled their way on to the Seddon Park stage in three heats over three days.

There were still plenty of backstage butterflies on Saturday but many said they fed off the raucous crowd that was hundreds strong and almost entirely male.

Each contestant was asked if they were supporting Holden or Ford and, while most were backing the former, Rose Burleigh's ambivalence won the day when she declared: "I swing both ways".

But while the contestants were on stage on Saturday an underwear thief apparently raided the Grid Girls changing room. When they returned after the pageant, three or four g-strings had disappeared.

And just for the record the inaugural Miss Hamilton 400 winner was Pipi Sopp.

pigs love the V8s

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:30:47 GMT

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V8s 'windfall' goes to the pigs

A Hamilton cafe owner has been left with a $4000 debt and was yesterday forced to feed 1200 burger buns from the V8 weekend to pigs.

Zeal Cuisine owner Louise Bourke said the promised 160,000 visitors to Hamilton failed to reach her doorstep. Ms Bourke, who runs a boutique cafe at the north end of Victoria St, was left with hundreds of surplus burger buns and was trying to sell cuts of meat to friends and family. She blamed the Hamilton City Council for over-hyping the event, which encouraged her to ditch her usual gourmet specialist menu and to open over the weekend. Ms Bourke described Victoria St as a "ghost town" and said ads playing on the radio throughout the weekend telling people to avoid the city had made too much of an impact.

"We were down unbelievably because our regular customers were scared off by the V8 hype."

On top of the drop in customers, he said, restaurants cancelled orders as the crowds failed to show.

Windows XP sp3 CD at dl Center on 4/29

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:22:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Get sp3 CD-Rom

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When and where will be able to get a CD of Service Pack 3 ?
I find my CD of SP2 indespensable at times.
The window of oppurtunity to procur the Service Pack 2 CD was small ,at least the zero cost window.
I am sure I am not alone in wanting to have the CD version rather than fooling around with downloads onto machines that may not have an internet connection now or ever.

CD images of the update package will be available at Microsoft Download Center on 4/29.

An online ordering tool for the same, similar to what is available for other service packs, will be available within the next month.

SP3 Release Dates Windows XP

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:17:02 GMT

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April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP

April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers

April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center

June 10, 2008: Automatic Updates

SP3 Release Dates
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XP Service Pack3 Released to Manufacturing

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:07:14 GMT

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released to Manufacturing

Thread Starter: Chris Keroack [MSFT] Started: 21 Apr 2008 5:04 PM UTC Replies: 5

Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers.

We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer.

Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:54:10 GMT

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Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Groklaw is reporting that some people have decided to compare the OOXML schema to actual Microsoft Office 2007 documents. It won't surprise you to know that Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the strict OOXML schema, you get a 17 MiB file containing approximately 122,000 errors, and 'somewhat less' with the transitional OOXML schema. Most of the problems reportedly relate to the serialization/deserialization code. How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?"

Firehose:Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors by Anonymous Coward

Dressing Like A DJ Gets You Into Any Aussie Club

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:20:07 GMT

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Cyclists go too fast sometimes

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:14:04 GMT

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Doug Humby, who snapped this sign on the 100K Flyer cycle race course from Rotorua to Taupo, says, "Cyclists go too fast sometimes".

like the road marking?

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:06:28 GMT

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Driving on Symonds St last week, Jan Hendrix of Henderson came across this chaos-causing road marking.

cheap diary get free extra days Dec 31st Wecemday

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:00:22 GMT

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Glenn Young now knows why the diary he bought at an unnamed Dollar Store was so cheap. "I was amused to find that five weeks of the year had an extra Monday each (groan), there were two extra Tuesdays, Wednesdays Thursdays, and December 31st falls on a Wecemday!

Adults wear socks only

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:43:31 GMT

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My wife and I thought this sign at a local Lollipops Playland in Tauranga was quite indecent, writes a reader.

Swastika symbol in fruit

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:41:01 GMT

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Nobody was more surprised than me to see a swastika symbol in my feijoa, writes Dan. "I considered placing it on Trade Me, but gave into temptation and ate it. It tasted pretty good."

Hamilton 400 V8s New Zealand

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:22:16 GMT

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DAY 3: Garth Tander sprays champagne after winning the Hamilton 400. Ford Performance Racing's Steven Richards (right) joins in the celebrations.
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V8s view Blocked it is our fist year ok next year

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:08:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When asked if organisers would consider refunds to unhappy spectators, Mr Calvert ruled out that option.

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VIEW BLOCKED: Hamilton man Rex Tinkler in the Stadium stand from which he can't see the Hamilton V8s' action.

His view up the straight is obscured by a giant TV screen and a tree, and the cars pull in too close to the left of the track before turning the corner, meaning they are obscured.

He said an engineer could easily have realised the grandstand seating wouldn't give spectators a good view.

"You would be better off going and sitting in the general admission seats. Probably next year I'll watch it on TV."

She also said the picture on the giant TV screen opposite was ruined by the sun, and the glare meant the view was poor.

V8 promoter Dean Calvert acknowledged they had slipped up with the angle of the grandstand.

" Listen, it is our first year. We will be making changes next year, definitely.

When asked if organisers would consider refunds to unhappy spectators, Mr Calvert ruled out that option.

"You only get a refund if something is cancelled."

Bangladesh army feeds troops potatoes

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:18:09 GMT

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Bangladesh army feeds troops potatoes

More than half a million Bangladeshi troops have been ordered to eat potatoes in an attempt to ease the impact of surging rice and wheat prices.

Potatoes are not traditionally on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people but army chief General Moeen U. Ahmed and the country's army-backed interim government has ordered a change in diet because the tubers are now cheaper and more abundant.

World prices of rice, wheat, edible oil and pulses have almost doubled over the last year, increases that poorer Asian countries can ill afford.

Bangladesh was hit last year by two severe floods and a cyclone that destroyed around 3 million tonnes of food grains, raising fears of a possible famine.

"The daily food menu now includes 125 grams of potato for each soldier irrespective of ranks," government agriculture adviser Choudhury Sajjad Karim quoted the army chief as saying on Thursday.