Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. became the second business, behind telecom giant AT&T, to deploy Microsoft’s computer technology which essentially turns table tops into touch-controlled computer displays.
“People continue to be excited about the endless possibilities of Surface technology and how it can transform everyday scenarios, including the social and entertainment space,” said Microsoft Surface general manager Pete [...]

The cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry has come up with a brilliant strategy for making his work look good. It’s such an obvious wheeze, I wonder why others haven’t employed it before. Asked by the Arts Council to select a show from the huge collection of modern British art it has built up, Perry has plumped [...]

A dingy street in Surry Hills received an injection of international glamour yesterday when Miranda Kerr arrived for a photo shoot.
The new “face” of David Jones drifted into Kirrily Johnston’s studio 20 minutes late amid chaotic scenes of pattern-cutting and model-fitting, as the designer gets ready for her show that opens Australian Fashion Week on [...]

There, I said it. Do your worst gentle readers, but you wont change my mind. Its an incredibly stable, user-friendly operating system that plays nicely with all my other software and ticks away in the background, quietly doing everything it should. What more could I ask for? Theres just one little problem with XP: Microsoft [...]

The small organisation isnt used to handouts and sparkling new equipment so you can imagine, when the Invercargill Licensing Trust agreed to spend $12,000 on five new boats for the club, a touch of excitement developed.
The club members %26mdash; who had previously trained and played in dated boats %26mdash; now have top-of-the-line equipment in which [...]

I could barely bring myself to plunge the knife into its skin. For a day or two, it just sat there on the windowsill a picture of serenity too perfect to touch let alone cook.
I take pleasure in watching fruit a pear or a peach perhaps ripen on the kitchen shelf, giving it [...]

And he said he hoped the New Zealand NRL franchise would leave the door open when his contract with the Bulldogs comes to an end.
Its my old stamping ground over here and I do have a soft spot for the Warriors, Williams said ahead of todays clash between the Dogs and Warriors at Mt Smart [...]

Decisions are far from being made but what we do know is change is in the air.
How these changes will affect the deep south is still uncertain at this time but if we glance at the information in front of us, Southland should be included in the Air New Zealand Cup under most revised formats.
An [...]

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‘Mummy, I’ve just uncovered a bone that’s never been seen before.’ My eight-year-old son, who had never handled anything more dangerous than kitchen scissors, was scraping away at the sandstone with awl and scalpel, brushing away loose dirt with a toothbrush. ‘I think mine’s the femur of a tyrannosaurus,’ shouted his 11-year-old brother, working [...]