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Two things I learned yesterday.

Lesson: Europe’s Daylight Savings Time starts the first Sunday of Spring, which is not aligned with North American DST.
How I Learned This: The webcast we did on Monday, included a clock animation I built on Friday. When I built the clock so that Europe’s time was six hours ahead, it was correct. On Monday when we played it, Europe’s time was seven hours ahead.
More Info on DST: Simple list of DST locations, or country-by-country.

Lesson: Don’t play Wipeout:Pure for PSP in Tournament mode while riding the subway.
How I Learned This: After completing the four track circuit on my way to Sheppard station, I looked up and saw I had passed it nearly ten minutes earlier and was now at Finch.
More Info on Game Addiction: Good, but largely tongue-in-cheek details at Gamer Widow. There’s also no-joke On-Line Gamers Annonymous, but it isn’t really for me. I hate the idea of paying $30 for a game, then having to shell out another $20 each month until they arbitrarily decide the online world is no longer profitable and shut it down, making your investment worthless… but that’s a rant for another time involving Mplayer’s sale to GameSpy, and the subsequent end of online Terminal Velocity.