| Bet on Bettie: Avoid unwanted "surprise" parties
Birthday parties are a big deal to a lot of families. Parents certainly don't want anything to go wrong after weeks or even months of planning. So what do you do when the party equipment you've rented doesn't show up -- or gets there late? Many families rent moonwalks for their kids' parties; it's the main attraction. So imagine how you would feel if things started to go wrong. One Austin family says a party rental company almost ruined their daughter's birthday. Krystin and Mike Johnson ordered a Scooby-Doo moonwalk for their daughter's sixth birthday party. All was well until the scheduled delivery time which was between 11 in the morning and one in the afternoon. At one, the Johnsons started wondering if Scooby would ever show.
Linux talkfest kicks off in Melbourne
The conference kicked off on Monday with two days of mini-conferences on topics as varied as Community Wireless, Education, Embedded, Fedora, Multimedia, Debian, Security, Virtualization, Distro, Gaming, LinuxChix, and MySQL to name a few. In fact, Russell said that the paper committee - the body responsible for choosing what conferences and addresses take place at linuxconf - had a tough time filling the schedule. "I was the chair of the paper committee, and that was hard because there were so many papers, we had to cull over two-thirds of the presentations that were submitted. I've described it previously as a bloodbath" he said. "Even if you chose all your favourites there is still not enough room in the conference so its very much give and take and it's a lot of debating.
NHL Photo Wire
Anaheim Ducks right wing Teemu Selanne, of Finland, holds up the Stanley Cup after the Ducks won the finals with a 6-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators in Anaheim, Calif. in this June 6, 2007 file photo. Selanne returned to the Ducks on Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 after missing the first half of the season while contemplating retirement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery, File) .
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