I agree. Also - what's so wrong with getting a kid to focus on something difficult and master it? In this age of ADD, I wonder if the loss of practicing these skills has repercussions we don't fully understand. I think it belongs in a class of classic skills that develop (as a minimum) the ability to focus and hand-eye co-ordination.

amazing how unix almost always has had a solution for such a long time: I think these tubes have "rsync" written all over them....