I learned touch-typing in high school but that was back in the pre-PC days when typewriters roamed the earth.
Given my eventual profession as a computer programmer it turned out to be far more useful than I ever would have imagined.
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The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News wish to apologize for our apology to Mark Steyn, published Oct. 22. In correcting the incorrect statements about Mr. Steyn published Oct. 15, we incorrectly published the incorrect correction. We accept and regret that our original regrets were unacceptable and we apologize to Mr. Steyn for any distress caused by our previous apology.