I finally have a real project to work on. eknuth asked me to help him with a program called Saigon. It's basis is interacting with cable modems using SNMP. It looks big and scary, but I'll be able to figure it out in time. I'm looking foward to digging into the ol' Perl books and figure out what's going on. From what he explained, our first main goals are to make the program more modularized and cut down on the code size, document the heck out of it, and make it generic so we can more easily share it with others. If we make quick progress on it, you can [hopefully] look foward to an open-sourced version soon, but you didn't hear that from me...