goals and desires

i borrowed some of kaya’s books on ipc mechanisms because last night i realized i am a complete coding newb. there are so many things i don’t know and so many things i want to know. i was telling alex this morning that i have to step this up a notch otherwise i’m not going to get bored of developing in the unix environment and i need to, otherwise i will not want to move onto getting a phd in mathematics. i was checking out the homepage of richard stephens, the author of some fabulous books, and he got a PhD while working full-time. so now i’m wondering if it is indeed possible…