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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Your teeth get smaller as you grow old and that makes your face sag. You can have a dental facelift to increase the size of your teeth and fill out your face.
  2. Band Aid II did a cover of Do They Know It's Christmas? in 1989. I was at the time living abroad and was therefore mercifully spared the embarassment.
  3. Green tea tastes better (read: a bit less like poo) if you make it with not-too-boiling water.
  4. I thought my T-Mobile MDA Vario III was 3G but it also uses HSPDA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) , kind of 3.5G.
  5. The font used in German car number plates is difficult to forge because usually similar numbers/letters bear no relation.
  6. There is a free version of BT Callminder, but because it's called something completely different (BT Answer 1571), the BT helpdesk fails to mention it when you ask for a free version of Callminder. Sure, the free version has less features, but it still takes messages (as if anyone still called landlines these days). We switched this morning, thus saving 2.5 pounds per month. We could bypass BT altogether but we're too happy with Pipex and Pipex (as almost all British ADSL suppliers) requires a BT line.
  7. You can charge an iPod with Gatorade and an onion.

2 Responses to “7 things I did not know last week”

  1. A Reader Says:

    Have u got the sms notification on Bt Answer 1571? People so rarely call my landline, I have to be TOLD that it's happened LOL

  2. bitful Says:

    No, I haven't. In the past two years only one friend left a message. I think she then tried my mobile anyway.

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