Well, im not sure this qualifies but i think alot of you can get a good giggle out of this. I once worked for IBM ( dont laugh yet ) - only problem was that i was (am) very good at talking, but wasnt that good at the real deep tech stuff. To make a long story short, i worked there for 3 years before i quit: and i honestly can say that i solved alot of things, by use of... IRC and search machines. All i did was: Get the problem - for instance, install this DNS server in another country. Great - jump on a plane, enter the hotel, wake up next day, go to highly secure server room, open laptop and hook up mobile phone, place it next to the server, and begin searching for "how to setup DNS", while chatting on various IRC channels asking people for how to do this. And, it never once failed me. The funny thing is, after i quit, i got headhunted for another major company (wont name it here due to various reasons) because of my work for IBM. I turned down that job, and has since then never worked with computers professionally again.. too much stress for me. :) But i think this qualifies as a hack - albeit a slightly different one. :) Merry xmas guys!

And you just know that on this particular day, some boy sat around thinking "Today is the most boring day in the history of the universe" - and hey, he was right!