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Learning is a strange thing. It can come in ways you expect, but probably comes more often in unexpected ways. So, this concept started me thinking about some of the strange things I have learned along the way with this Blog. So, here goes.

1. It is easy to get started blogging. OK, to blog a bit more, but it is really hard to keep blogging. So, I have a new found appreciation of those who do it for a good long while.
2. You know those spam emails, advertising everything from stock tips to how to increase/decrease the size of body parts you may/may not have? Do you know why you get them? Because they work. Somewhere out there, there is a guy/gal sitting at their computer who actually clicks the link of a spam email in the hope. Spams exist because they work! Scary! But, worry not for me, I’m about to collect a big payday from a Nigerian banker who just happened to contact me today. Just a little effort for a big pay day! Now, where’s my bank routing numbers?
3. The World Wide Web should really be called the Wild West Web. It is absolutely lawless out there. Until, and I hope not if, someone becomes the sheriff, and decides to clean up the place, it isn’t exactly safe. Sure, lots of excitement, and lots of opportunity.
4. I am absolutely amazed at the number of fake registrations I get on my blog site. Like I wouldn’t check. I guess folks are just looking for abandoned blogs. I also get those on my YAHOO! account, my Facebook and MySpace accounts which I never use, and probably a few other accounts that have been lost to antiquity.
5. Remembering all my damn passwords is an amazing chore. I use RoboForm to help. Really like the tool. I like it well enough to register it. I just hope that admitting this doesn’t now open me up to some unexpected web attack on my password vault. YOWSA! On second thought, forget that I wrote this.
6. Bottom-line, if you engage your brain in something new, you are bound to learn something. Maybe you’ll even learn something about which you set out to learn. More than likely, you learn that and a whole bunch more. Get going, there’s a whole world of unexpected things to learn.

Bill