As most people seem to agree, I don't certifications will help in any role on a day to day basis. They are only worth while to get you past the first hurdle of the CV scan by a potential employer and get you to a face to face interview.

All insurance is Black Hole insurance - money goes in and never comes out.

When I was learning to program (a long, long time ago), I was told that untidy code always contained more errors that tidy, well laid out code. If the programmer was too lazy to lay the code out neatly, what else was he too lazy to do.

Love the quote from Heinrich Harrier in 'Seven Years in Tibet'.

And Simplicity is Elegant.

The first computer I worked on had a 1MB drum memory. There was only one compiler for it in the world, in California, and I was in London, the only modem in the company was the other side of the site, and I had to create punch tape to move the code form modem to computer. It was old and slow, (bit like me now) but it got into my blood and I am still coding 30 years later.

Unfortunately, I can remember when the only output we had was a long roll of paper and black ink.

Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?