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I also travel a lot and I love it. I travel in order to experience new cultures, people, food and drink. The last thing I want to see when I have traveled half way across the world is something that I see on my own freaking street.

The smallest and most remote places in the world seem to have widely available wireless internet access in lots of coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and bus terminals. I'd much rather support the local, little guys when travelling. It's usually cheaper, tastier and you meet many more amazing people inside. You're right in saying that Starbucks is consistent, but for me half the fun of travelling is playing menu roulette and seeing what you end up with.

I do understand the occasional need for a "taste of home", a haven of comfort if you will (In my case, hunting for a full English breakfast after days of eating fish and rice). I guess the line between "a recognizable, familiar, and reliable brand" and "overarching corporate crusher of culture" seems a little blurred to me.

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Except I run and Android phone :(

"Phil Dub often works too hard and put in too many late night unbillable hours on projects as he is a perfectionist"

Stop targeting your ads at Android related users (Android forums, games review sites). Go find a place where the people who will actually play your game hang out and then advertise there. Mothers group forums, parenting forums, business traveler hangouts, school teachers - whatever.

I have one question about the pricing. You say "x projects" and the cost is monthly. Is that x projects per month? If I start a project in one month, and it continues into the next billing cycle, do I get to start two new projects whilst I complete the outstanding third one?

Sure it was tightly controlled with various security precautions, change control and the other banking regulator requirements which made it impossible to be a hacker and to get things done quickly.

But as a workplace it left me with fond memories.

This certainly exceeds acronym/real word ratio in my book. I thought this was about a university pub crawl... :S

This would be great. I moved to London last year and I had no idea where I should live. I ended up travelling all over the city looking at dodgy flats before I found a place that had all the things I wanted.

I could have avoided a lot of wasted time on thoughts such as "Elephant and Castle sounds like a lovely place"

What bothers me most about this is that the programmers didn't bother to remove the S from "rounds" when the result was singular... sloppy.

I got this book for my 18th birthday, and it was invaluable in shaping me into the person I am today. I don't quite understand why it costs £65 on Amazon though: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Man-John-Birmingham/dp/187598...

This seems to work well for me.

Seriously?! Ignoring the fact that I can't remember when I last print something, who needs to print to their house from the internet? Can't they just print it when they get home?

I die a little inside every time some site emails me my own password.

P.S I have used (ie paid for) PSD2HMTL and the folks did a magic job. I recommend them to all.

Well done!

What language do you like to code in? Really? That's great. Now shut up and go code in it.

What difference does it make to you that I use PHP, Ruby or original ASP?

My website achieves the result I desire. I chose the programming language I use because of reasons that made sense to me and my project, not because I want the approval of a bunch of hipster start-up kids.

PHPFog are on AWS and I pay them to make sure they have the redundancy worked out. If they don't, I would yell at them until I got some money back.

I am considering configuring RDS for Multi A-Z, but need to research it a little more first. From what I can tell you just click a button to turn it on, but there were a lot of people complaining yesterday that the fail-over didn't work at all when it was supposed to.

I also have a bunch of EC2 VMs that do back-end processing and have a load of CRON jobs on them that need to run once every 24 hours. If these go down for a couple of hours then there is no noticeable impact to my customers, they can still log into my service and access their historical data.

I have considered spreading across multiple regions etc but at the end of the day it's just too expensive for the small increase in reliability.