"Ho Ho Ho" and all that malarkey_______Are you ready to party?_______Looking for a seasonal "something" for the computer in your life?__________Well this month's disk is ready and waiting to put you right in the Christmas mood______so bring on the reindeer, hang up the mistletoe and start clicking________You wouldn't believe how much stuff we had to fit on this CD_______that's because software suppliers everywhere want to give you, the readers, a Christmas bonus________But don't worry, we've managed to get a great mix of music, games and particularly festive software for you_______Go to Featured Software to have a look at Starry Night, an absolutely excellent program for all stargazers________View the sky as it appears in your back garden from your desktop, and learn about all those magical stars_______you never know what you might see at this time of the year!________And then there's Christmas Magic, an interactive Advent Calendar________(no chocolate behind each door though!)_________ Plus there's a great demo of the game Fifth Element and laughs-a-plenty with the Robosaurs and their veritable opponents(!)________On a more sober note, from this month's Software Library you can tune up your chess skills - or even learn from scratch - with K-Chess Elite_______ We've also got some neat file utilities in the shape of the latest version of Winzip (7.0), WinArj and the simply bloomin' handy MacSEE, that you can use to read and access Macintosh files and disks________But being Christmas an' all, even the Software Library has to lighten up so what better way to celebrate the holiday than to install a few festive computer programs in the form of Holiday Lights, a set of fairy-lights for your desktop, or Tracking Santa, where you can watch Santa's movements as he delivers Christmas cheer on a global scale________Remember, if you have any problems with any software, the technical support number is 01685 354726 and is available from Monday to Friday 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm (times differ during Christmas holiday)____________And so to a few little PCW USELESS FACTS to discuss over Christmas dinner, which should serva as a diversion from bad cracker jokes________PCW Useless Fact 019901: No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple____________PCW Useless Fact 019902: Dolphins sleep with one eye open___________PCW Useless Fact 019903: Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously___________PCW Useless Fact 019904: The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle___________and finally from the PCW Fact Archive, one to mull over as you sit there belching on the sofa, swearing never to eat so much again___________PCW Useless Fact 019905: Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself________yuk__________So dinner's over, and you may well find yourself in the mood for a sing-song, so we bring you these new and very "poilitically correct" words to the Twelve Days of Christmas_____________After 3_____1,2,3_________On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my potential-acquaintance-rape-survivor gave to me: TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming; ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note...); TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping; NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression; EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Europeans; SEVEN endangered swans swimming on protected wetlands; SIX enslaved fowl-Europeans producing stolen nonhuman animal products, FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration, (NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw red paint at our computers, the calling birds, French hens and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further animal-European enslavement, the remaining gift package has been revised) FOUR hours of recorded whale songs; THREE deconstructionist poets; TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses; And an Animal Rights activist chained to an old-growth pear tree__________Another remonder, that if you have any problems with any software, the technical support number is 01685 354726 and is available from Monday to Friday 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm (times differ during Christmas holiday___________Merry Christmas from all at the PCW CD team_________________
