Just got in from taking my daughter back, had quite the frostilicus thing going on around the mouth of my balaclava - not positive, but it's likely the coldest I've ever ridden in (those wind gusts were *awesome* coming west.... not)

Other than a short volunteer teaching spell at a high school and some French I took at GBC, I've not been to school here, it seems weird how it works to me. My degree (at a regular UK University) was a load of BS, however. I enrolled originally to the software engineering program, which let us in on the 'core' foundation year for all CS-related students. That was all OK, but I switched to "Internet Technology" - a new degree they'd launched in time for my 2nd year. This new "Internet" degree was so great, we didn't even so much as learn HTML, let alone anything else. Most useful stuff I actually remember from University that I actually use in the real world would be database design and development, and perhaps some of the HCI cognitive psychology junk for UI design. All in all University came close to killing my passion for computing... but I stuck it out, got work in a dot-bomb company which opened my eyes to PHP after learning ASP there, then I moved to Canada and taught myself more PHP while waiting for my papers, and I've been using that in various jobs since. I'm finding that I've been in my current job a while, but my skillset is getting stale - I'm behind the curve on a lot, and frankly had a lot of umming and arring on whether I even want to stay in the field.

Oh and I hate Java - it can go suck my balls our lecturer and tutor for Java were both pretty awful at keeping us engaged in actual learning.