Did You Know These General Facts?
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
- Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
- Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
- Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 (about £3,500)
- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Here is a list of 10 Laws of Computer I discovered ~
- If you have reached the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
- When you are computing, if someone is watching, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
- When the going gets tough, upgrade your computer.
- The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you'd least expect to find it.
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
- To err is human ... to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, its downright natural.
- He who laughs last, probably has a back-up.
- The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
- A complex system that doesn't work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
- A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.
And 10 Alternative Laws of Computing ~
- The more acronyms on a page, the harder the topic is to understand.
- Inside every program is a small module struggling to find a life of its own.
- Developers get their programs working perfectly on their machines, but they forget that their potential customers may have very different computer environments.
- Computer project teams avoid monthly progress reporting because it demonstrates their lack of progress.
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the abilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
- You will never solve any computer problem if you are in a bad mood.
- When troubleshooting computer problems, people always assume that problem is the most obscure combination possible. Whereas, in reality the fault is invariably the simplest fault.
- Every computer program expands to fill all the available memory.
- If a computer supplier says a part is interchangeable, for example tape drives - they lie.
- Remember that your computer makes as many mistakes in two Pico seconds as fifty men working for a years.
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