It's "foreword" when you write the piece that goes before the book contents. Forward is a direction you go.

I mentioned Aho, Hopcroft & Ullman before. Another series of books/lectures to consume to change your brain about what you're doing when you're programming is Donald Knuth's series The Art of Computer Programming. You can start from here: http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/ta... Go find some of his stuff on YouTube. You will undoubtedly cook your brain a bit, so give yourself plenty of rest between episodes of exposure.

Hmmm ... somehow my id didn't get associated to that post. Hate that it's now on here as "Anonymous Coward" ;)

I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side ....

Piqued: plucked/triggered/alerted etc...., Peeked: took a quick look at, Peaked: reached the top, or having a pointed top, or looking peaked=looking sick Or something like that

It's a long roll of (preferably soft) absorbent paper perforated at regular intervals used for wiping/absorbing bodily fluids/excretions, and occasionally used for corporate ramblings about technical issues/accomplishments/frameworks. Once it's been used it is no longer "white" in most cases.

Sorta like "Waking the Dead" eh? Has she talked you into crumpets yet?

LOL ... I just had to ask. Doing further research into my question I found some research papers that indicate that there is a small amount of caffeine in some chocolate -- similar to the amount of caffeine in decaffeinated coffee. At least this isn't a "pew" poll ;)

There are a number of things in chocolate -- and there does appear to be some validity to there being a small amount of caffeine in chocolate, I would ask that you provide specific citations which show that caffeine is the strongest component. It may be the strongest in terms of its stimulant effectiveness, however the quantity of caffeine vs theobromine leaves it in the "also-ran" category in typical batches of chocolate from the reading I've done.

Chocolate (unless it's been infused/mixed with caffeine bearing extract, coffee beans, or tea) has theobromine which is a close relative of caffeine. Pure chocolate has no caffeine. The kick from theobromine is much lighter and shorter lived than caffeine. Ref: http://www.xocoatl.org/caffeine.htm Let's discontinue the urban legend of caffeine in chocolate. At the same time I'm all for well made mocha that brings the joys of coffee/caffeine together with chocolate/theobromine!

This statement " Even more interesting is that oil or petrochemicals used to create this type of plastic are only known to come from ancient fossilized organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae, which geochemical processes convert into oil pointing to the earthshaking evidence that there was once life on mars." is a bit behind the times. Research in recent times shows that petrochemicals can be generated from crystalline hydrocarbon compounds found in a variety of commonly found subterranean igneous formations. There are in fact people who explore for oil based on this theory of abiotic petroleum generation in place of the old theories that crude oil was only created from organic sources.