I was using it back when it was originally called Phoenix before it was Firebird.

From the pictures it looks more like he's just digging into the side of an existing basement, and the 4' cube of dirt would be about right.

And what is CodeAdacemy??

Personally, if it was a choice between not working and still seeing my colleagues, I'd choose not working. I don't like my colleagues THAT much. It's not like I'd ever be short of friends (or women) if I had that sort of money. It's a good trade.

Children with autism have been found to have enlarged amygdalas, and I wouldn't exactly call them social butterflies.

All the physical lines here in Australia are owned and maintained by Telstra. Other telcos just rent lines off them for their customers.

Anywhere outside the USA.

I blow my nose with tissues.
I photocopy things with a photocopier.
And I search for things with Bing or Yahoo. I also google for things with Google.

Well, IIRC, following the archaeology from Africa, through the middle east, India, SE Asia, to Australia, it basically shows a slow progression around the shore. With arrival in Australia being 40-50k years ago.

It's doubtful they've been here much longer than 40000 years. Genetic evidence indicates they are descended from the same group of people that left Africa about 70000 years ago as every other non-African person on Earth.

Here in Australia I *wish* ISPs had to provide 768kbps to call it broadband. 256kbps down/64kbps up is the common low-end broadband here. Utterly useless. Combined with download limits as low as 100MB on the cheaper plans and we're a communications backwater. Hit the limit, and you're shaped to 64/64. Ick. Plus it's expensive. I pay about $117 USD a month for approx. 6Mbps ADSL, 120GB per month download limit, which is split into 45GB peak, 75GB off-peak usage. And that's the highest residential plan from my ISP. And there aren't many around that can beat it.