There's no Office 13...

...would you believe, so MS is going to jump straight from 12 to 14.
Superstitious, eh? Still, we're not really allowed to say anything about the
next version of MS Office - that's "12" - so what about reading the product
manager's blog instead? It's at http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/ My Mum was disappointed to learn of its
'revolutionary new interface, but I told her not to worry - her local
government employer is in no danger of getting it before 2010.

The most fascinating thing about the story of the German match fixing referee is not that he trousered 45 grand. Nope, it’s that he accepted text message bribes from his fellow crims at half time during the game. But, I wonder, what do other refs get texted at half time? Do they, like the rest of us, get texts bemoaning the lack of attacking play or complaining about 3-5-1 when 4-4-2 would be better? One can only speculate…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4445896.stm

Gates and Jobs

We all know that Bill and Steve have contrasting styles, but have you ever compared them according to Zen principles? Amusing this may be, but it's also rather interesting. Not least because Microsoft use PowerPoint terribly!
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html