- James Bond's creator Ian Fleming wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car. Via a friend's friend who left a comment on my friend's Facebook.
- If you extract numbers from a text string in Excel they are still stored as text (and therefore uncountable). To turn them into numbers you need to multiply the formula you used to extract numbers from a text string by 1.
- Simon Le Bon's firstborn is a model like her mother.
- Will Powers' 'Kissing With Confidence' (that I know via the original 'That's What I Call Music' CD) was part of a whole concept album 'Adventures In Success', a 'parody of the self-help/get rich quick gurus'. Via Joe.My.God.
- Carly Simon provided (uncredited) the vocals for 'Kissing With Confidence'.
- We love rounded corners so much because 'A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort'.
- You get only one Gold Card (the paper counterpart to the annual Oyster London transport electronic ticket) per year. You lose it, you stop getting discounts on rail travel (because most of the British Rail ticket offices do not accept the printed receipt as proof of validity, even if TfL claims they should. I fear my Gold Card is likely to be in a recycling bin in Italy.
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7 things on Saturday 15 August 2009.
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