True that. Every Friday, it's my little bundle of joy delivered by the postman. The closest US equivalent is Foreign Afairs, but it's full of huge ego pieces such as Henry Kissenger banging on about an optimistic vision for pan asian co-prosperity sphere... or how vulnerable the Ruskies are to a first strike. National Geographic is excellent, but I prefer to read the older editions, from the 70's and 80's, the newer ones just aren't the same. There are lots of Linux magazines produced in Europe, many of which are rather glossy, but none of them come anywhere the Perl Journal or Sys-Admin magazine in terms of purity.

Wow, wait till you hit 40, you're gonna look back at that post and weep. Unless you're female, in which case you're probably going to be laughing into your cappuccino. Two words for you my son. Monthly Payments.

Take that any way you like.

Not quite as subtle as that, I was under the impression they just blew them up. Not much ambiguity there.

I don't believe any suicide bomber has done so in the UK (worn a burka). Apart from a single significant instance in 2004, the people with the greatest history of random slaughter in the UK, have been 100% white, without exception and indistinguishable from any other indigenous inhabitant of those blighted isles. The only 'white' country in which Islamists have carried out operations used Burka clad female suicide operatives has been (arguably) the Russian Federation, specifically Chechnya and Dagestan. The vast majority of the camera's in the UK are trained on the white, Christian, shoplifting, drunken assaulting, raping, whoring, speeding, drug dealing natives. Of course, most of the population think they were put there by the EU - because the Daily Mail tells them what happens.

Sounds like mud pie to me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Best magazine in the world. It's like National Geographic, but unlike National Geographic, it isn't dumbed down. Novels are the preserve of teenagers and pensioners - if you can afford to read a novel, why do you work in front of a computer?

I'd say insightful rather than funny.

Find out which ones are important to the business - start counting them. Create a pipeline of system improvement projects - work on them. Document everything you do. The gods will smile upon you.

That's the most retarded shit I've ever heard. None of the US's 'near peer' states could care less about the manner in which the day-to-day war of occupations are waged. IED's, propaganda, tactics, torture, etc, haven't changed since the 50's. What they would be interested in - is some of that tasty info that comes from getting some slut to hook up with a policymaker, scientist or prominent economic figure. War zones provide good wages, at a (somewhat)* increased risk of disabling injury or death. But, apart from the potential for socio-political scandal there probably aren't an awful lot of strategic technology on the ground, when you consider it was brought there to use against a third world enemy. *While the west still maintains it's military/technological advantage over the enemy/rest of the world.

say goodbye to your life for the next year. hope you're getting paid to mislay it....

The others will shurely follow... (typo was deliberate)

Linux - Good Apache HTTP - Not so good MySQL - Currently doing no evil PHP - For the love of god, why?

Some of greatest dullards I've ever worked with - have been: house in the suburbs, car-driving, college guys. Having had life handed to them on a plate; many display a noteworthy lack of initiative, extending themselves, only as far as is necessary to support their social-climbing goals. I've worked as a consultant/contractor. Mostly, providing them with the information they were too lazy themselves to learn. Who wouldn't rather have, a clued-up, hacker working on the team, and not an indolent, middle class jock. And, seriously, the information is all on the Internet, or in books. Lots of people don't even want to go to college, and be forced to deal with priapic chasers of young skirt, egomaniacs, bullies, weasel-worded bigots, manic leftists, hangers-on, liars and all who plague academia. It's the 21st Century, get the information yourself. Commerce is pure. Fuck University.