{"id":20882,"date":"2013-07-11T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=20882"},"modified":"2013-07-11T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:52:06","slug":"day-192-i-am-the-4659668831st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/11\/day-192-i-am-the-4659668831st\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 192: I am the 4,659,668,831st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how the internet works. The second most popular page on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"BBC News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">BBC News<\/a> site isn&#8217;t from today, nor this week, month or even year, but from 27th October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The page in question is titled: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-15391515\">7 billion people and you: What&#8217;s your number?<\/a>&#8221; It is a sort test to work out where you stand in the 7 billion (see the title for my position), my country&#8217;s\u00a0population (62,035,570) and my <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Life expectancy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_expectancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">life expectancy<\/a> (77.4 years).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20883\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/7-billion\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png?fit=1004%2C616&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1004,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"7 billion\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png?fit=1004%2C616&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20883\" alt=\"7 billion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion-300x184.png?resize=300%2C184\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png?resize=825%2C510&amp;ssl=1 825w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-billion.png?w=1004&amp;ssl=1 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a title=\"Now We Are 7,000,000,000\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2011\/08\/now-we-are-7000000000\/\">the face of 7 billion before<\/a> and it seems that the appetite for this figure isn&#8217;t going away!<\/p>\n<p>Band tonight was the penultimate rehearsal before the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Summer vacation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summer_vacation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">summer break<\/a> and I have to say was the most enjoyable one of the year. Certainly the band is sounding fabulous at the moment and I know that with a guest drummer on Sunday we will be brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Work today was good too, only in during the morning and we focussed on a rehearsal for next week&#8217;s summer concert then began the final writing task for the year &#8211; a choose your own adventure thing written in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Microsoft PowerPoint\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_PowerPoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">PowerPoint<\/a>. Hopefully, they will come up with some interesting ideas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how the internet works. The second most popular page on the BBC News site isn&#8217;t from today, nor this week, month or even year, but from 27th October 2011. 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