Looking after a baby and a crate of Lego bricks
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7 things I did not know last week
- M&S and Argos have audio versions of their catalogues. (Via James Cridland's blog)
- Newborn babies cry with mother's accent.
- Avatar is the first movie James Cameron's has directed since 1997's Titanic.
- Greenland used to be part of the European Union but it is now one of its overseas territories.
- Nigella Lawson's mother wanted to call her Gondola.
- Tajik (spoken in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia) is a modern variety of Persian. It is written with the Cyrillic alphabet but authorities are considering switching to Persian script.
- A cat and a Volkswagen Golf have the same eco-footprint.
How to view Gmail contacts' birthdays in Google Calendar
I knew you could sync your Gmail contacts' birthdays and events with Google Calendar, but I could not find the 'Browse public calendars' link mentioned in the post Contacts' birthday and events calendar supported in Google Calendar.
I found it instead under Settings > Calendars > Browse interesting calendars > More > Contacts' birthdays and events > SubscribeOld building in Aurisina, Italy
Found while getting lost. Sometimes I cherish my lack of sense of
directions.
Vote Ray for Mister Eagle 2009
Went for a drink at the Eagle across the road to support my friend Ray
who is competing in Mr Eagle 2009!
Update: Ray won!
7 things I did not know before watching Life
Last night I watched the first two episodes of the BBC series Life and learnt that:
- Cheetas are mush smaller than ostriches.
- Some fish can fly – well, glide actually but it's impressive nonetheless.
- The sensors on a Venus fly trap must be touched twice within twenty seconds for the blades to shut.
- The Brazilian pygmy gecko is unsyncable.
- Komodo dragons can kill a much larger water buffalo with a single poisonous bite – and then wait for up to several weeks next to the buffalo waiting for it to die so that they can feast on it.
- Brown basilisk lizards can walk on water and are therefore nicknamed 'Jesus' or 'Jesus Christ' lizards.
- Dolphins are even more intelligent than I thought they were. A small group of dolphins in Florida make a circle of murky water by swimming rapidly, and then wait outside the circle to catch panicked fish jumping out straight into their open mouths.
Life is a beautiful series and totally worth the licence fee. You can still catch it on iPlayer (UK only I think, and until the 21st of December). Watch it in HD on a big screen if you can, it's stunning!