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Dragons' Den is the show that Shark Tank is based on. It has run for many seasons in the UK and Canada (and short runs in Australia and Ireland and elsewhere). Episodes can be foun…

Various sources for day-length estimates are available, see for example https://design-of-time.com/slowing.htm (appendix A).

The province of Alberta, Canada (more than twice the land area of New Zealand) is free of rats. In their case, it was largely by stopping rats entering from the east (Saskatchewan)…

Interesting that there are no current transpacific cables at all landing in western Canada. Makes the area very dependent on the neighbour to the south (which is an earthquake risk…

I've had domains registered for over 20 years already, much longer than gmail has existed. You can renew a domain for ten years in advance and easily transfer between registrars (a…

I didn't realise that road was so nearly finished. Should be open by end of this year. That's 3750 km (2400 miles) by road from Vancouver BC to the Arctic Ocean. Longer than Melbou…

You can drive a further 1200km+ road distance north of Whitehorse, Yukon on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. End of the road appears to be just north of…

Unfortunately very few people have their own domain for email (although they should!). When companies have kindly sent me their entire customer list (by using CC in place of BCC) I…

The fad peaked back in May: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fidget%20spinner

An interesting one for London is Train Times vs House Prices [1]. Shows how prices are affected by commute times (and the raw data is downloadable if you want to plot the times on …

It was the only number that could not be dialled by accident by letting go of the dial too early. The aim wasn't to dial quickly, it was to avoid accidental calls. Rotary dials in …

In the UK, when I renewed my driving license online I was offered the option to have them pick up the photo from my passport record, rather than send in a new photo. Since the pass…

Here's a frequently updated list of tech startup jobs in Victoria: https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs Victoria also has nicer weather than Vancouver (less summer rain).…

Digital Ocean started as a lower-priced clone of Linode (Vultr did the same later). They started with just a subset of the services (finally catching up now), but had good develope…

I've registered hundreds of domains over the years, and still have a few hundred. Most were brought with a specific idea for a site in mind, but I ended up focusing on the few site…

Plan A would be to send some robots to try building using this technique. If it doesn't work, you're only out a few robots (who may be able to be repurposed). If it does work, leav…

I've been travelling on a road trip in NZ for the last month or so (with a few more weeks to go). Even now, tail end of the summer season, the country is packed. I like to drive ar…