Progressing slowly on my OU server admin course. There always seem to be so many other things to do. For example going to Paris for a couple of days, work, taking photos, this… At the moment I’m trying to learn Python as well as covering some search algorithms in Artificial Intelligence: a modern approach. The book has a website all its own with lots of code samples in Python. I think I’ve just about worked out the python version of a Boggle search space problem. Anyway it’s a good way to actually learn python, as opposed to reading a book about it.
Peter Norvig (one of the authors of AI:a modern approach) has actually written this about the futility of trying to learn a programming language in anything less than 10 years. PHP has only been around for about 7 or 8 in its current form, so…

PS I’ve started another gnozu blog: gnozu blog on Bloglines