I've used 123-reg.co.uk in the past, it's all online, but you do get emails to let you know there is an expiry approaching.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

As a lefty in a righty world I do most things righty, including using a mouse, I can mouse and type or mouse and WASD. Touchpads always seem to be more to the left hand side of the laptop, so I've always used my left hand, it also feels more natural I suppose due to similarity to drawing. People who switch the buttons are weird :)

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

I always power down overnight at work, it means I come into a clean environment everyday, and allows me to forget about yesterday's troubles.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

My company is moving from IMS and VersionOne to JIRA, I've not had the chance to try it out yet but other teams seems to think it's an improvement.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

I've got an old floppy case that has Win NT (some version), Win 3.11, DOS 6.22 etc in, I doubt I'll ever throw them out. I've also got Commander Keen, Crystal Caverns and Frontier around somewhere along with some newer ones on CD that ran on DOS.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

I've been trying to migrate Access back-ended ASP systems since I started my current job 3 years ago. The Migration tool is all well and good, but I've found it easier to re-create them by hand, whilst simultaneously re-writing the front-end. Depends on how big the project is, obviously. As others have said, Access is evil. :mad:

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My other half doesn't get these either, and wonders why I laugh myself stupid with them! She doesn't appreciate them even after I've explained them.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

I love Pink Floyd. And yes, most fears are learned. I was never afraid of spiders because my dad taught me not to be, when he moved away for work for a while, I learned to be afraid as my mother and sister were afraid. Now I'm afraid, and jump whenever I see one! Although I was scared watching Aliens, even though my parents liked it. I'd wait for the film to come out on DVD and watch it at home, at least then you can stop it and come back later if the kid loses interest.

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Dad "borrowed" a computer from work, which I used mostly for games. My first 'programming' experience was writing a menu system in a batch file to load my games, and prompt for CD etc. I love the fact that I can make a computer do almost anything I can conceive. Couldn't imagine myself doing anything other than development. Edit: It was an IBM PS2 machine, running DOS 6.22

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When I go to my Nan's in the middle of the woods, there's no signal and no internet. I get slightly sweaty after a week, unless I keep myself busy! Mostly I have just a phone, other than computers, and tv etc. Although the Microwave goes beep, and then keeps beeping until you open the door! :mad:

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That's really cool, I didn't know about that! :-D Works in Firefox too!

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.

I don't have a problem with it re-hibernating (not that I've tested it). I do have a problem when putting it in to hibernation, sometimes it just logs me off instead. I come down in the morning to a very hot lappy! :doh:

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I've always said that "Programming is a state of mind", you either have it or you don't. Like others have said, I taught myself a little, learned syntax and a few helpful ways from College tutors, then learned loads from work colleagues when I finally go my first job. Now I work all alone, and I'm trying hard to learn from you lot, and others on the interwebs, as it's really hard not having someone to bounce ideas off of. There were a few people at college who were learning the 'Art', but I don't think they would have made good programmers, even if they did get better marks than me in the assignments!

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Two 17"ers. As with others here, I use one for coding and the other for the application/website I'm developing. I can't stand things being windowed, everything I use has to be maximised. For other parts of my job it's also useful to have two word docs or spreadsheets open for comparison, it's like having one of those page stand thingys.

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I get in to the office about half hour before I need to (8:30) and start reading through my emails, then read through the choice picks in the CP daily newsletter, and end up starting at about half 9. Somedays I don't start thinking about coding until 10. Once I've started I normally have to browse the net to look for help, where I generally get sidetracked for up to an hour. I start heavy coding from 4 til 5 then go home. I would much rather work in the evening, and definitely from home.

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I remember my dad bringing home an IBM PS2 machine that he'd "borrowed" from work when I was about 6. I wrote a batch file options menu for my games, so I didn't have to 'cd' to the appropriate directory. When I was 15, my now brother-in-law showed me Turbo Pascal that he was learning at college, I then wrote a pong game before I started college (the same course as him). Through my 4 years of college I was always showing everyone else how to make the boring program we had to write more interesting, generally through boredom of completing it within a few mins. I thought I was a programmer, then I went work for a company using AS400s and RPG3/ILE, I realised how little I knew. I now write internal web applications for a school in .NET, all alone.

You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.