bitful

1. Stephen Hawking is 65 (I would have thought he was in his early fifties).
2. In Canada, informal hockey games are still called shinny (from shinty, a team sport played with sticks and a ball, now played almost exclusively in the Highlands of Scotland).
3. YouTube videos can now be forwarded without buffering. You used to need to wait, now you can click at any point in the timeline and only the portion starting from that point will be buffered. It wasn't always like that, was it?
4. In 2000 The Russian Orthodox Church bestowed sainthood on the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, shot dead by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
5. My host 34sp. com has a dedicated Wordpress hosting package, with a free installer and specialised support. It proved invaluable this week to provide help with the awesome 2.3 upgrade (the brilliant new database interface functionalities needed a couple of tweaks in permissions and configurations).
6. The higher testicle is usually the one the male writes with (Popbitch via bob's yer uncle). Only in my case it is not, but it might be because although I use my right hand with precision work, I perform heavy duty activities with my definitely stronger left arm.
7. Firefox does not understand Colgroup. It seems to be one of the very few instances where Explorer follows the standard, and Mozilla-based browsers don't.

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