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AAAKK. Update your Software for New DST!

CNET News - Daylight Savings Bug. http://news.com.com/Wake+up+to+the+daylight-saving+bug/2100-1011_3-6159840.html Outlook, and I presume most other things that depend on Windows need to run updates! Specifically Outlook: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102086071033.aspx?mode=print Symptoms include the times for Appointments after March 11 being 1 hour off (in display)

Guardian Blog: I hate macs

Some quotes: "I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.ht