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Lesson #19
I need to write more regularly, but I won't continue with this "What I learned today" thing for more than a month. -
Lesson #18
The brand-new General Electric dryer I purchased this week from Sears needed replacement parts before it was even delivered. -
Lesson #17
When it's zero degrees outside, I'm best off wearing gloves for my run. -
Lesson #16
In under a year, I have improved from being the slowest swimmer in my triathlon club to being the median swimmer. -
Lesson #15
Rob Ford is, judging from his television publicity blitz, unlikely to become the acceptable mayor he never has been. -
Lesson #14
In Greece and Turkey, a popular sport is Free-diving, in which a person with no equipment can plunge 80 metres underwater and then resurface, with a single breath. -
Lesson #13
Nowadays, mining Bitcoins on a regular computer costs more in electricity than it generates in Bitcoins. -
Lesson #12
Bitcoin "mining" is a misleading name, and "solving math problems" is a misleading description. It should be called Bitcoin "banking": spending real-world resources to validate transactions and earning a fee in return. -
Lesson #11
No matter how many times I think I learn this lesson, trains in Canada are always slower than I expect. -
Lesson #10
The CBC's Offshore tax havens explainer won the Canadian Online Publishing Award for Best Visualization, beating my CritterFile work for the Toronto Star.