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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. If you play with a cod liver oil capsule for long enough, it will eventually pop and splatter all over your desk and the side of your keyboard. The very same side you probably clutch with your hand when typing and stopping to think. Marvel in astonishment when, three days later, your hand smells of fish and you have absolutely no idea why.
  2. Michelle Ryan (EastEnders' Zoe Slater) is the new Bionic Woman.
  3. I knew you could have Brita water filters that integrate in a fridge door, but Brita water directly from the tap, that's a new one for me. Slightly tempted.
  4. Dr B.'s Sony PVR/DVD recorder is partial to DVD-R discs. It can record on DVD+R, but it takes as long as the recording being played, and stretches the image to a nasty widescreen format with black bands.
  5. Having a machine that runs Vista can make you feel a bit left out. When I got onto the BBC iPlayer closed beta testing phase a few months ago, I had to install it on Dr B.'s desktop. I can only back up my text messages on my laptop with Jeyo Mobile Extender. And now I cannot join my friends on iLike but yeah, you guessed it, iLike requires Windows XP (if you are running Windows).
  6. Our building's management company gets our (huge, loft-like) windows cleaned. And I thought it was the constant rain during the past few weeks.
  7. Jeremy Sheffield appeared as a dancer in Queen's 'I Want to Break Free' video.

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