Recent content by myoung

etrade.com(not etrade.com.au - seperate organisations) Open an account and trade in and out without currency conversion. A little bit of paperwork to open account but not too bad. Trades are USD$19.99 until > US$50K in account(cash/shares total) then drops to USD$9.99 I got sick of trying...

There is money to be made in suburbs like Melton. IMHO it is not in buying house and land packages on unit sized blocks and waiting for gains for the all the reasons stated around land etc. Someone will just come and build instead of buying yours in a few years. It is in the older properties...

PC. Backup old phone then restore to new one. You can select what you backup and what you restore.ie SMS only if you want. I'm assuming you are using "messages" and not another app for sms

Use Samsung Kies to backup old phone and restore sms, contacts etc whatever you want. http://www.samsung.com/au/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/

Interesting. The tenderness scale seems to be determined by how much Govt assistance you think should be provided rather than by people helping people voluntarily. Social Attitude Test Political Values Progressivism 60 Socialism 12.5 Tenderness 31.25 Your test scores indicate that you are...

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3654761846 This is via Wireless from my laptop to an earlier model Billion 7800 than you posted via ADSL2 on TPG 1.4km from the exchange. I have found better speed on the Billion than on Netgear previously FWIW. Is connecting with 14 Mbit Download speed. Used...

Time to update the sig again Perp. Up to $81950 now for team SS. Loan 32 for me just done.

Who is losing jobs? Public servants in the tax department!Climate bureaucracies that do nothing but circle jerk? A lot more jobs would have been lost and will continue to be lost due to the carbon tax operating in the production chain of everything produced in Australia. It's like an inverted...

Depends how relevant it is to the job at hand, I'm on the infrastructure side, not applications development but experience counts the most along with how the person interviews(handles questions/situations etc). In terms of certificate vs cert would depend on which one holds the most relevance to...

It's a competitive world out there. As someone who interviews and hires people in IT I would rank it as follows: Experience + Cert > Experience + No Cert > Cert + No Experience > No Cert + No Experience. The further to the left of the equation you sit the better. At least with no experience...

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/diy-howtovote-cards-to-give-voters-control-in-just-a-few-clicks-20130830-2sup6.html

Looks like she is a climate change sceptic after all.

Voted yesterday and stood their for a minute wondering if i could really be stuffed filling out 97 boxes. Did it anyway, you were right, very annoying, especially as you cant fit the senate ballot paper open flat in the width of the polling booth space, so i was constantly flipping it over to...

Fair enough, I like their thinking so would like the influence to counter the ban everything brigade.

According to their website(LDP) you can vote LDP in Vic, but below the line. Will be making up my own senate preferences. LNP in Lower House and LDP in Upper, looks like I'll be numbering boxes for a while on election day.