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Blogging from MS Word 2007, are you serious?

So, I’m not a MS fanboy by any means, but I have to admit, I’m really liking the new Office 07. Not only does it look cool, but it’s genuinely has some new and useful features. Heck, I’m writing and posting this in Word for crying out loud!!

Anyway, let’s see how this goes.

Testing Japanese: 毎度大きいに!!

How about other stuff:

Here is a

Table

For all

You table lovers

 

 

近日中にお目にかかって申し上げます。

IPTV: Verizon shows off TV service at mall

Verizon opened its 5,000-square-feet Fairfax store Dec. 15 inside Fair Oaks Mall with little advertisement or fanfare. Verizon has so far opened only one other store — in Southlake, Texas, near Dallas. Both stores are located in Verizon’s most developed FiOS markets. Verizon estimates it will spend $23 billion just to rewire its network.

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Voter smashes touch-screen machine with metal cat paperweight

A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today’s election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said. “He smashed it with the cat’s ears,” said volunteer Jim Govostis, who watched the incident.

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Where did the expression "pulling your leg" come from?

Funny. The first time I hear the word for for equivilent in Japanese [ashi-wo hipparu] I was surprised to find out that it means something different. If someone is pulling your leg, they are trying to hold you back. Usually not as a joke. If someone is keeping you from accomplishing something you’d say, “stop pulling my leg!” [ashi-wo hipparu-na!].

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