I never stop learning. I'm constantly reading books to challenge myself, and seeking out different experiences to learn new things. Sometimes I think I should just write down everything I'm learning so I can look back on it later. So that's what I'm doing. Here's a collection of a few things I didn't know until the last month:
1. My Nissan Sentra doesn't have a distributor cap. It has coil-on-wire ignition. I spent several hours trying to find the distributor cap before I asked someone at Auto Zone where to find it, and they showed me the coil-on-wire assembly.
2. Installing railings in your house is a job for a skilled carpenter. Heather and I were going to do the work ourselves in our house, but decided in the end to go with a carpenter, in part for time constraints, but also because of the difficulty level. Maybe a few years down the road I'd try it myself, but not right now.
3. An ASP.Net TreeView control will not fire the SelectedNodeChanged event if you're using the TreeView in Navigation Mode. I had some events I wanted to occur when someone navigated away from a page, and tried to wire those events up to the TreeView control, as it seemed the logical place, but it won't work. I think that's a poor choice.
4. DirecTV can give me my local channels, but not my localized Weather Channel. I just assumed that they would have the localized Weather Channel, but no dice.
Well, that's all that occurs to me right now, but there's more. As I come across stuff that's surprising and interesting to me, I'll post it here.
