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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. It is getting harder and harder to transfer your credit card balance from bank to bank to take advantage of their interest-free joining periods. First, transfer fees were introduced. Now Lloyds applies a Minimum spend of £100 in the first 3 months.
  2. If you copy some text in the clipboard, then Ctrl-V it when you are in your inbox, Outlook will create a new email and paste your text into its body.
  3. More of a question than a discovery: is hating certain food items genetic, or do you develop disgust through education? I guess it's hard to determine whether nature or nurture determines what we like and hate to eat. I'm only saying this because I recently found out that both Dr B. and his dad hate celery.
  4. Marathon runners never run a full-length marathon (26.2 miles) in training. The thought gives me the shivers, as the day I will attempt to do anything in public that I have not fully rehearsed and that I am not 100% certain I can do will be a glorious achievement for me.
  5. Reverse engineering (RE) is 'the process of discovering the technological principles of a device or object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation'. I knew the process (I do it a lot), I had no idea of what it was called.
  6. Gmail can be skinned with Firefox extensions. Alternatively, you can change Gmail's appearance with user-defined stylesheets.
  7. Cost Per Impression is abbreviated with CPM because M is the Roman numeral for 1,000.

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