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Happy Birthday Dear Zoo Keeper!

Submitted by Almost Evil on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 1:12am.

Happy Birthday to you!

 

I know today is a hard day for you to be happy* but try to enjoy it if you can.

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Love is a minefield.

Submitted by ibcute81 on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 5:32pm.

"Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single". Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) in Love & Sex (2000)

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How to Change File Associations using Vista

Submitted by Pembo210 on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 7:44pm.

How to Change File Associations in Windows Vista.

File associations are basically what program opens when you open a file. For example, if you try to open a Microsoft Word Doc, the machine knows that ".doc" is the file extension and that it needs to use Microsoft Word to open it. Microsoft Word also now uses ".docx". The "x" tells the system that it is a 2007 Office file. Likewise the changes have been added to other 2007 Office file like Powerpoint (now ".pptx") and Excel (now ".xlsx")

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