Mike
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Male
53 years old
Australia
Last Login:
5/15/2008
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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, Greenday, 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, Little Miss Sunshine, Memphis Belle, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Ordinary People, Pleasantville, This is Spinal Tap, Top Secret | | Television | Bewitched, Beyond Tomorrow, Columbo, MASH, My Family, The New Inventors, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, The Sketch Show, Star Trek (original series), Top Gear, 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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"The Bookcast" - http://www.thebookcast.com/latest.xml
"The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler" - http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/conversations/conversationspodcast.xml
"The Cranky Middle Manager Show" - http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/cmm/feed/
"Negotiating Tip of the Week" - http://otter.audioblog.com/rss/negotiationtippodcast.xml
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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
"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 and drivers to interface hardware to the rest of the software. I'm currently unemployed after the device driver jobs went overseas along with the hardware design and manufacturing.
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.
I live in a two bedroom flat with a big garden out the back. It's not supposed to be a big garden - it's supposed to be a small garden - and will be a small garden again one day when I finish weeding it. Or instead of pulling out weeds and putting in flowers, I could just paint the weeds different colours. Maybe I could learn how to do that at one of those landscape painting courses ;-)
I am a lapsed motorcyclist with a slowly deterioriating 1986 Suzuki GSX250. I used to ride to work every day until my boss told me to get a car so I bought 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 ten years ago. It's been very reliable and gets 40 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), Terry Pratchett
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