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British businessman Duncan Goose has told of his surprise at finding a squirrel peering up at him from his toilet. Mr Goose, 42, was in Malawi to check on aid projects backed by his company's One projects when he rescued the forlorn animal. He was preparing for bed in his hotel room...

A cat that chased a rabbit into a pipe found himself in a tight spot, literally, when he became lodged inside and had to be freed by firefighters and vets - who got a surprise in the middle of their efforts. When the black-and-white tomcat was discovered struggling with the pipe inside a...

A Malaysian landlord received a rather unpleasant surprise when he went to collect rent from some tenants and found his property had disappeared. All that remained of Zuria Ali's house, which he had inherited from his parents, were 24 concrete pillar holders, a smashed TV and pieces of...

A holidaymaker was stunned when she took a photograph of a craggy coastline and captured this spooky image - of the Virgin Mary. The hooded figure is seen holding her arms out-stretched in a cradling action sheltered beneath rocks at Newquay's Western Beach, Cornwall. Caroline and...

Wisconsin Woman Finds $280K of Drugs in Vacuum GREEN BAY, Wis. - A Green Bay, Wis., woman opened a Christmas present from her children to find a refurbished vacuum - and a load of drugs. Authorities say the woman found 2 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of cocaine...

Jewellery stash first for secondhand book-seller | Otago Daily Times Online News Keep Up to Date Local, National New Zealand & International News Over the years, secondhand book-seller Mike Hamblyn has found all sorts of unusual items in book purchases - banknotes, letters, photographs...

I'm still trying to get used to my new Win7 desktop system. I've found many, many surprises in what MS has/has-not engineered into the product. In the past I've run weekly full-image backups of pre-Vista Windows systems by booting one partition of a multi-boot system to backup another...

Washington - Windows 7 is one of those rare operating systems that seems to keep on surprising you - and often pleasantly - the longer you use it. Link Removed

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After several months working with Windows 7 for a lot more hours than I care to admit (else it's evident that I need to get a life) I though I had found all the handy features... at least the obvious ones. Then I was playing cards today and was going to minimize and accidentally clicked on...

For some reason I was not holding my breath that the RTM would be up today. I was pleasantly surprised when I got home and found that indeed it was there. I know the final build has been on torrent sites for weeks now but there is something about it being official that makes a huge difference to...

As I commented in a previous thread.... Well, An IT System Admin friend of mine had a 'teleconference' with MS on the subject of Win7 the other day; when I was talking with him, he asked me if there was anything I wanted to know about Win7? I ( in a 'tongue-in-cheek' mode) said yeah, ask them...

Paul Thurott seems to think one of the two major Windows 7 announcements is a new Windows 7 UI, the second is probaly the OS's release date. Link Removed - Invalid URL . "There are rumors, too, that a new UI is coming and it may make sense for Microsoft to hold on to that UI for the RTM builds...

If you signed up for Windows Vista Beta 2 and registered your product key with Microsoft, you will have access to Release Candidate 1 when it is released. I didn't know this until tonight, and I'm sure many others didn't either. There was also some talk about a big "suprise" being planned...