December 31, 2009
Life Lessons Department
Things I Learned In the Aughts
I've decided to steal an idea from Gideon and write a quick list of things I learned in the last decade:
- I learned to ignore people who say the decade/century/millenium has one more year to go because there was no year zero.
- I learned that terrorism in the United States is a more real threat than I thought it was.
- I learned that just because the people opposing the president are idiots doesn't make them completely wrong about him.
- I learned that occupying a country to change its form of government is a very long-term project.
- I learned how to start and run a one-man corporation.
- I learned that working from home makes me gain weight.
- I learned that some take my blogging seriously and appreciate what I'm saying.
- I learned how to take a pretty good photograph.
- I learned that taking road trips with cell phones, a mapping GPS system, and wireless internet is a whole different experience from when I was a kid.
- I learned that it pays to buy an insulated delivery bag so the pizza stays hot when you bring it home.
- I learned that a DVR and multiple sources of downloadable video make television in to a completely different experience.
- I learned to program with
- The .NET Framework
- Windows Forms
- Windows Communication Foundation
- PHP
- CSS
- JavaScript
- AJAX
- YUI
- Procedural SQL
- Movable Type
- Drupal
- TikiWiki
- NUnit
- I learned the incredible value of having medical and financial powers of attorney for my parents.
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