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Installing Windows 8.1

“REDMOND, WASHINGTON The Borowitz Report—Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.”

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 : The New Yorker.

John Utzon…

“His greatest joy was to know that inside that building, up the steps from the main concourse, on the right, was a hall that in 2004 was named after him. It is a wide, low, bare space with huge easterly windows, floored in pale timber and with a ceiling of folded concrete beams that seem to hover lightly, bathed in reflections from the sea. The Utzon Room is exactly what he dreamed of; and it is also the only room yet built exactly to his plans.”

John Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House