haha, well spotted IllogicTC! i assure you that there was no hidden message there :P and you're exactly right, these tasks require you to think in a much more different way than you do when creating a fully featured, user friendly addon with a UI and such.

jonesy, too true, it's a problem a lot of us face :P i used to work on my entries mentally on the bus rides to and from uni. i suppose if you're genuinely interested in something then you tend to find the time for it. being exposed to this type of coding intrigued me early on, and i'm not sure i would've become a programmer without that interest. in high school, i dropped Biology and took up Computing at the very last minute thinking "let's try this out!". i wonder where i'd be today if i hadn't done that :O