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Learned a bit HTML, PHP and SQL by myself when I was in junior highschool, then Delphi, SQL (along with those relational theory stuff) during my education as software developer. I've been doing web development since I started working, mostly in PHP. I'm getting into JavaScript (mostly with Prototype, sometimes wit YUI) lately. JavaScript is very cool. Unless you have to beat the Microsoft's crap of a browser into submission... ( View formatted comment » )

My girlfriend on my iphone http://dustylittlecorner.com/misc/cthulhu-640.jpg on my computers (well... I've padded it with the background color to make it fit my screen) ( View formatted comment » )

We have compulsory military service here in Switzerland, too. You have to serve 300 days until you're retired from the army (at the age of 30, if I remember correctly), with a basic training of 17 or 21 weeks (depends on your function). Afterward, you have to go on military service 5 weeks a year. I'll have to go to the recruitment in 2 months, that's 3 days of physical and psychical examinations. Bleh :( I hope that I won't have to go to the army (too lazy for that crap and my boss won't be too happy if I'm awa... ( View formatted comment » )

I've been in Berlin last year for the 24C3 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007). I didn't see much of it in daylight though. Spend most of the daytime either sleeping (resting from going out the night before) or in the congress center. :) But I liked what I did see. Did a little write up of the trip: http://blog.orly.ch/articles/2008/01/02/so-... ( View formatted comment » )

That sounds like replacing "jet lag" with "hangover" to me :) ( View formatted comment » )

I usually don't get any jet lag when travelling westwards, especially on flights in the night (for example Hong Kong -> Zurich departs 23:00 in HKG and arrives 06:00 in ZRH), provided that you can get some sleep on the plane. For me, it just feels like a long night. In the other direction though, it's more difficult to cope with. The most important thing is not to fall asleep until night and wake up in the morning on the next day, no matter how tired you are. More or less a hard reset on your biological clock :). I can say from ... ( View formatted comment » )

I usually eat my Lunch outside (well... with a 45 minutes commute, going home isn't really an option :) but sometimes, I take along leftover from dinner or a microwave menu. Too bad that I don't have much choices here for food where I work (it's a small-ish town outside of Zurich), with only one restaurant in 10 minutes walk distance. As for dinner, I usually eat at home. When my flatmates are around, we cook something. When I'm alone for dinner, I get some takeaway on my way home, or order some delivery food. Cooking ... ( View formatted comment » )

I wish I could unsee things... ( View formatted comment » )

The first and only part time job I had was at the Archeology Department. A friend of mine got me the job and we went there together. Our work was cleaning up the mud from stuff they dug up and helping out a civil defense guy. I had an hourly wage of CHF 10, if I remember correctly. Was quite a nice pay for a junior high student. The former part of the job was dead boring, sitting in a room and shrubbing creamic shards. At least I had a radio to listen to. But the latter part was rather interesting. The Archeology Department was also respo... ( View formatted comment » )

In Order: - Gameboy - SNES - PC (Not really a console, but was my primary gaming platform until Xbox 360) - Playstation - Xbox - PSP - PS2 - Xbox 360 ( View formatted comment » )

My Macbook Pro runs with 2GB of RAM (I bought a 2GB module to upgrade it to 3GB but I discovered AFTER I bought it that my first generation MBP only supports 2GB of RAM, so I pretty much wasted the money :( ). It's mostly used for work (PHP coding, email and stuff). ( View formatted comment » )

What's the bucket for? "Barracks" for his "soldiers"? (A cumbucket, so to say ;) ) ( View formatted comment » )

This! Is! Caketown! http://youtube.com/watch?v=gNqiSkd1M6k ( View formatted comment » )

While I desperately want a light, compact Mac (carrying a Macbook Pro around for a 4 day congress is no fun), the Macbook Air is just isn't very appealing. I can live without an optical drive (I never needed it except for OS installation) and Ethernet port, but only 1 USB port? That's ludicrous. And it's just freakin' expensive. But on the other hand... 1.5kg... My back tells me I have to get one :) ( View formatted comment » )

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222041057.png Here's mine, on cable connection. 9Mbit/s down / 900kbit/s up (it's advertised as 10Mbit/1Mbit). I pay 65 CHF (that's around 58 USD/39 EUR) a month for it ( View formatted comment » )

Stick-like thing at crotch level you don't want to know about maybe? ( View formatted comment » )

Don't you mean you want to be the chair? ( View formatted comment » )

Well... Garbage disposal is quite expensive here in Switzerland so people are motivated by money to recycle. Paper are collected once every two weeks and carboard once a month. There are many collection points for PET bottles (every supermarket has one) and collection points for glass and metal are widespread, too. Shops that sells electronics are obliged to take your old stuff since for a few years, you have to pay for the disposal when you buy elecronics. For all other stuff recyclable stuff, you have to go a recycling center. So eit... ( View formatted comment » )

Is trust really enough? XD ( View formatted comment » )

In junior high school, I got something around CHF 10 a week but after that, I got CHF 70 a week since I had to have lunch outside (the school was around 20km from home, so getting home for lunch wasn't really a realistic option) and it had to cover fuel after I got a car. That amount got into the negative since I have been earning money myself (that is, the allowance was kind of a interest-free credit) ( View formatted comment » )

Lazyness FTW :) ( View formatted comment » )

Exactly :) ( View formatted comment » )

I often hear a co-worker of mine shouting "Infernet f***ing explorer!" (and writing it in the commit message) whenever he has to fix javascript stuff in IE :) ( View formatted comment » )

Well... I'm happy with programming, so I won't trade it for anything :) ( View formatted comment » )