If you're feeling particularly radical, try the new Sins of a Solar Surgeon.

Dear god, you didn't put quotes around that string!

I definitely noticed as I went from budding programmer to decent programmer, that my mind became a bit more analytical. I started predicting a few outcomes to problems that haven't happened yet. However, I also noticed that when I begin working on something complicated to me, and not just programs, I tend to zone out from the rest of the world much more often now. I think if being a programmer has a mental benefit (Analysis) then it also has a detriment (Excessive focus on one's work, perhaps?)

Nowadays I hardly make grammar or syntax errors at a SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Exactly as you say. It is sad, but companies aren't magical places where the people in charge adore you and ride unicorns into work every day; they want your money. Badly! Yet, if the company wants to play dirty and constrain you into having to pay them twice, I feel no guilt in breaking said restraints forcibly and paying them once, as intended, and getting what was agreed to out of the deal. I haven't pirated a single copy of Windows; this computer is over five years old and came with XP on it. Any future computer I plan to build but if I had to buy one normally, Vista would be taking a hike as soon as BitTorrent comes for a visit.