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The Creative Process
Had a hugely satisfying day yesterday sitting at my computer totally immersed in the creative process of programming. Before you laugh this off as old age geekiness. Some people, myself not included, can create music. Others can draw or paint. I am truly envious of them.
On the other hand, I can make all sorts of computers do all sorts of clever things in many different ways. And I can do this using clean and clever code. In doing this I can bring utility, and in some cases, quality to the lives of others. That is indeed the underlying motivation behind all of the programming I do.
So, watch out in a week's time or so for my next app, MyCountR PRO when it appears in the App Store – it was conceived, designed and crafted by yours truly.
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Pathetic Parliaments
Our parliaments, and by implication, our politicians are pathetic!I have just discovered that by the *_Interactive Gambling Act 2001_* our governments have ensured that Australians can only gamble in Australian venues. In other words, the immoral collection of gambling tax has been protected.In Victoria, that’s $1.7 Billion per year. The only other taxation category which raised more money is euphemistically called “*_Land Transfer Tax_*” … in other words, Stamp Duty on property purchases. A tax which governments promised to cease after the introduction of the GST.
Is it unreasonable to expect telco gouging to be stopped?
A colleague, knowing that I had recently fallen foul of yet another telco for thousands of dollars of “excess usage charges”, sent me “this link(Another Telco rort)”:http://j.mp/cXGqiP, presumably thinking it might make me feel better.
Instead, it prompted me to recall that this is the fourth time a telco (a different one each time) has gouged, or attempted to, gouge me.
I am unable to use the services of one large Australian Telco because, even though they do not attempt to collect it, they retain a record of a debt in their system. So, if I attempt to sign up for a new service, they accept my application subject to the payment of an eight year old $14,000 debt.
Another luckily collapsed under the weight of its rich and powerful promoters while suing me for thousands in excess usage.
Yet another continued to charge me $500 per month for services which were available from other vendors, and to their new customers, for about $90 per month. In this case I was an early adopter of a new service and ended up paying several thousand dollars more than the provider charged later signups for the same service. They hid behind their “contract” to insist on payment.
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