Page 3 - show your stuff -- education anyways.

Is that Australian, New Zealand, US, Hong Kong or Zimbabwe dollars?

Zimbabwe 10,000 dollars = about £141. I could afford that if you could get over here!

I don't include it- my webbot logs in to devshed and POSTs the new info every hour. This is quite a bit trickier than it may seem, VBB has a number of features designed to stop bots from doing this (but I got around it, MU-HA-HA-HA! (keeping with the Dr. Evil theme)).

I came to the conclusion that the folks that made VBB really knew what they are doing in terms of trying to exclude bots and brute-force cracking of passwords, I had to jump through a few hoops to get the login to work.

I'm not sure if you could do it as easily with PHP, perl has extremely robust web automation tools (take a look at LWP, HTTP::Request, LWP::Parallel, and XML::RSS if you're interested).

I can write webbots that login to sites, store cookies for authentication on subsequent requests, POST or GET information, send whatever ENV variables I want and do a bajillion other things with only a few lines of perl code. I don't know if PHP has as robust a system.

Definetly Australian... which is approximitly 3,689.75 british pounds OR 5,392.00 US Dollars... btw, I am eligable for British Heritage Passport

Heritage passport? Does that mean that you've got to allow visitors to walk around your house and offer tea and scones at extortionate prices? And you're not open for business on Bank Holidays and during Off Season periods?

But of course...

Oh! Sounds like too much of a hassle to me. Lucky I live here eh? With rising taxes and over-ego'd politicians and crap weather and the like... where else would I rather be.

Afghanistan?

Cheap cost of living there at the moment, apparently the property market is tumbling.

tumberling? more like blown to rock bottom...

Good air conditioning though!

LOL...

collage only has a single meaning, and it is very different than college. In fact, they even have different pronunciations.

As for my education:

• Took 1 year of a Bachelor of Science majoring in Chemistry at the local university college.
• Took 1 year of a Bachelor of Science, Chemistry at a liberal arts school on the coast. Found out that I absolutely abhorred organic chemistry and had no chance of doing anything chemistry-related without it. Also discovered that I couldn't afford to go to a private liberal arts school.
• Took 1 year of a Bachelor of Science, General Science at the local university college. Took a couple of elective computer courses as I figured they'd be easy credits (and they were). Discovered I could do more with computers than just play games and optimise them. Tried to get into the 2-year computing diploma as all the people I talked to who'd taken it found it to be the hardest, funnest, greatest programme they'd ever taken.
• Ended up 2nd on the waiting list when they closed admittance, so I took 1 year of a Bachelor of Arts, General Arts degree. Found that I really dislike English and psychology courses, but really enjoyed sociology and philosophy.
• Took the first year of the computing dimploma and discovered that it was the most horrible decision I ever made, education wise. The programme stinks. The co-op was nice, though. Landed me a nice job with the local school district, doing Unix work (which is not taught in any of the courses). Parlayed that experience into my own consulting business.

In short, I've done pretty much everything, education-wise. And still don't have that little piece of paper, 7 years later (Van Wilder wasn't the only one).

All my computer experience (particularly the Unix stuff) I've taught myself through experimentation and a *lot* of reading. It's amazing the things you can pick up when you have a semi-photographic memory and an insatiable curiousity.