Mike
Mike Lewis
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Male
55 years old
Australia
Last Login: 11/22/2009
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Mike's Interests
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| General | embedded and safety-critical programming, photography, weightlifting | | Music | Abba, Al Jolson, Avril Lavigne, Backstreet Boys, Beach Boys, Billy Idol, Bobby Darin, Boyzone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Clash, The Cult, Def Leppard, Dwight Yoakam, East 17, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Everly Brothers, Glenn Miller, Green Day, Guns 'n Roses, Hanson, Jimmie Rodgers, LeAnn Rimes, Little River Band, The Mamas and The Papas, Manhattan Transfer, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, Queen, Ramones, Ricky Nelson, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Santana, silverchair, Simon and Garfunkel, Stray Cats, Wham | | Movies | The Blues Brothers, Citizen Kane, The Commitments, Gone with the Wind, Groundhog Day, How Green was My Valley, Hud, Just Like Heaven, Little Miss Sunshine, Memphis Belle, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Ordinary People, Pleasantville, Searching for Bobby Fischer, This is Spinal Tap, Top Secret | | Television | Bewitched, Beyond Tomorrow, Columbo, Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, MASH, My Family, The New Inventors, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, The Sketch Show, Star Trek (original series), Top Gear (UK edition), Twilight Zone, The West Wing | | Books | Any by Terry Pratchett
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy(?) by Douglas Adams
"Auntie Mame" by Patrick Dennis
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
"Maverick" by Ricardo Semler
"The Psychology of Computer Programming" by Gerald M. Weinberg
"On Becoming a Person" by Carl Rogers
"Working with Monsters" by John Clarke
"The Emotionally Abusive Relationship" by Beverly Engel
"Neurosis and Human Growth" by Karen Horney | | Heroes | Carl Rogers
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Podcasts |
"The Bookcast" - http://www.thebookcast.com/latest.xml
"The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler" - http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodcast.xml
"The Cranky Middle Manager Show" - http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/cmm/feed/
"David Maister's Business Masterclass" - http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidMaistersBusinessMasterclass
"Negotiating Tip of the Week" - http://otter.audioblog.com/rss/negotiationtippodcast.xml
"Plain Simple Management" - http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlainSimpleManagement
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Quotes |
"Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything" - Mark Twain
"Beware of the man whose god is in the sky" - George Bernard Shaw
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt
"Happiness is a by-product" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"It doesn't matter what they call you - it's what you answer to" - W. C. Fields
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" - Abraham Lincoln
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75" - Benjamin Franklin
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" - Christopher Hitchens
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"Hi T3ch Magazine" - http://hight3ch.com/feed/
"Psychology Today" - http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.rss
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Mike's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Melbourne | | Body type: | 5' 6" / Some extra baggage | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / No | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Education: | College graduate | | Income: | $60,000 to $75,000 |
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About me:
I started programming in 1976, back in the days when a user-friendly interface meant a new ribbon in the card punch machine. I've done a lot of work since then writing
communications programs for telephone companies, EFTPOS terminals and networks followed by embedded programs for a cell phone base station, an air traffic control system and medical equipment. I'm currently unemployed.
My fifteen minutes of fame came in 1984 when I wrote and ran a bulletin board on a Commodore Vic-20. It had multiple rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game, all in 9.6K of Basic. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. It was very popular. I ran it on the Vic for six months then rewrote it in Turbo Pascal and ran it on a 4.77 MHz PC clone with one 360K floppy drive, no hard disk and 384K of RAM (I couldn't afford the full 640K) for a year and a half.
My first car was a small Suzuki with a three-cylinder 800cc engine. It was a quick little car but I couldn't show it to anybody because, as soon as they got in, it slowed down.
I'm currently driving a 1300cc Daihatsu Charade which I bought new thirteen years ago. It's been very reliable and gets 35 mpg around town but I'm still looking forward to the day when I can afford to buy a car that can go up hills with the air conditioning on. My dream car is a 1971 Chevrolet Corvette.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Brian Wilson, Carl Rogers (a bit difficult as he's dead now), Nick Simmons, Terry Pratchett and Josh Waitzkin
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