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Last week I finished my 4th paid job since quitting Microsoft. Looks like I am set to clear about 40% of my full time salary by my 1 year anniversary which is way ahead of where I thought I would be. This year wasn’t about the money - I budgeted well and could afford to live fairly normally. However one of the goals for the year was to find a way to justify living this way for more than a year. Making this much money in the first year means that I won’t be looking for a full tim... more

Lots of people ask me how they can become an MVP well here for the first time I am going to reveal my secret. Know how to search on the internet. . Yes that’s all there is to it. You see if you spend a lot of time in the MSDN forums or the XNA forums and you answer a lot of questions well you are almost assured of getting an MVP nomination. But how to get those great answers. Well firstly you have to understand that in general people are lazy. However for some odd reason they think... more

Craig asked for an update so here goes.... My original plan was based on having enough budget to survive a year from August 1st 2005 to July 31st 2006 before having to look for a proper job. My original guess of spending a month or so getting back up to programming speed after years of being a manager was horribly naive. However by December I was feeling some of the magic come back. However I still didn’t have a plan to make money. My main idea was to do some game demos and then appl... more

Someone asked me if I was still doing the ultra 50k - sadly no. The event was last weekend (Sunday 22nd April) and though my leg injury is better the doctors didn’t think that running 31 miles was a good way to recover. Seems they are probably right as I am still having a few issues. I went to the event to support my team and after watching some of the back markers I just felt frustrated not to be running - I’m sure I would have looked better than some of them. So forw... more