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Has anyone been close enough to the BT tower to make out the words that are occasionally revolving around the new display at the top? Both my closest approaches on cycling to work and my workplace itself are just too far away. I originally guessed it said "BT.com", but I now think it might be "XXX days", where "XXX" is a three-digit number. Anyone?

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I just got asked by a friend on Facebook (<waves> hi Mazal): Apparently today is a special day for praying; it only occurs every fifty years. All her friends in Spain are going on about it, but no one in London knows anything. Apparently if you pray at the ninth hour, your prayer will be especially strong.

That's all she said, and I'm quite pleased with myself for figuring it out. (Look away now if you want to figure it out yourself!) Well, I don't know for certain that this is the answer, but in the Jewish calendar it's the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, and whilst the year is 5770, the fifty-year cycle suggests it might be the ninth year of the יוֹבֵל [Jubilee] cycle. I don't know when the cycle started, but given that it's two years after the last שְׁמִיטָה year, that at least fits.

Mazal replied, to say thanks, "u're a legend." I replied, "What kind of a legend; the kind you put on maps?" My cow-orker here, Scott, pointed out that actually she's saying that I'm only partly based on fact. :o)

(And if you want to take advantage of the opportune time (which to me signifies nothing more than that humans like patterned numbers), the ninth hour started today in London at 1:11pm and finishes at 2:01pm; times will vary elsewhere.)