I encourage you to get your degree on line. I did an online masters with UoP back in 2004, and I am willing to vouch for the quality of the instruction I got. The only ouch with UoP is the cost: It is pretty pricey, but you get what you pay for.
I turned in work for my masters degree from a dozen different cities, and I would have flunked out of a conventional program, just based on my work schedule and inability to attend classes. The MS has been a vital tool in securing the job I now have, not because it makes me a better technical worker, but because it causes an involuntary reaction in Catbert to put the resume on the top of the stack.
Indeed, in my current work we are prohibited from hiring software engineers without a degree, which is a dern shame, because one of our best guys could not transition from the prior contract because of this peccadillo.
Universities will be the next victim of the Internet. Why bother with a Lit degree when one can download the classics from Gutenberg.org? It has been several years since I consulted any source other than the internet for CS information, so the only reason to fool around with a traditional university is the party/social scene. (That is not a bad reason to attend, by the way, but it has nothing to do with information transfer or professional development.)
Here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/10259
TCL also pops up in some surprising places, such as system utilities and very high end applications.
TCL/Tk can also be programmed like fury for prototyping, which I do not get to do as much as I would like.
This is why methodology is so important.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
" There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "
Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service; in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal
(Such is the logical conclusion of evolution.)
I believe that respect for another people requires taking what they say seriously. This means taking the time to learn their language, or at least hiring a competent translator, and understanding enough about their cultural context to be able to understand their idiomatic statements. This includes understanding the fundamentals of their religion. These fundamentals (in this case) include the concept of Jihad, which involves killing infidels.
I agree that the bombers are not fundamentally suicidal. In truth they fundamentally homicidal. The Muslim idea is that they get a guarantee of going to wherever Allah is by dying in the process, regardless of their previous spiritual status.
The other point of this is not what I believe about them, but what they believe about themselves. They also might well have a plan for personally surviving the exchange to populate their Caliphate.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy