note TimToady <blockquote><i>I half expect to see a hard requirement for a race of militant space pandas enslave Europe in some of these alternate proposed project plans.</i></blockquote> That's not sufficiently farfetched. Could I instead interest you in a volcanic eruption that causes a bunch of displaced, disaffected European hackers to descend upon PerlMonks like a plague of locusts? <tt>:-)</tt> 836349 836587