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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61P. It would be a good machine except (1) the screen quality is consistent with that described in this article. Furthermore, it's developed hundreds of d…

I'm in Newcastle, but in Sydney almost weekly though.. feel free to let me know about any meetups! matt.howlett at the domain gmail

someone gave me a sympathy vote! I just realized it wasn't quit this bad - it was more on Saturdays ( $0.06 a paper! )

delivering papers, $0.04 a paper, up at 5am 6 days a week.

The paper could benefit from a few more pictures

It can also often be a ticket to bigger money because they'd rather pay someone they know and trust than take a risk with someone they don't.

I'd love to see a blog post that focuses on the 'barriers exist' point. Maybe some case studies. I guess there are a range of levels of barriers to entry, and any example of high b…

I've been a contract software developer (in Australia) for a few years now and have been doing this via a company that I set up. Creating a company to contract through certainly cr…

I'm getting surprising amounts of joy from Qt (via c++). It's well thought though, has proved to be fairly painless to use, and is getting very comprehensive in it's current versio…

If it takes X characters to achieve something in language A, and X*4 to achieve the same thing in BLUB, I don't think this means BLUB is 4 times slower to develop in than A. When I…

I think change is certainly key as the catalyst for a turn around your state of mind. That said, from my experience, I wouldn't expect to ever have an immediate, deep psychological…

One i recently discovered: cook some shell style pasta then add a small can of (possibly flavored) tuna. the heat of the pasta heats up the tuna. easy, cheap, good for you.