That, my entire experience in big corporate IT, had two good consequences:

- While avoiding work one morning, I was just browsing through the boilerplate text files and read the preamble to the #GPL for the first time. "This is going to change the world!" I thought, not knowing it already had. Always late to the party. It took another decade and a bit, but the free software community (the #Drupal community in particular) made me a half-decent, if slow and overwrought, coder.

- For a year I made an insane amount of money, so I didn't have to memorise the happy hour schedules of every pub in the #Sydney CBD and plan my evening around them in order to secure the essentials of a satisfying life: reading, drinking, walking, thinking.