note mojotoad Over the last year I found myself coding in the strangest of places; I was travelling without a PC and relying on net cafes whenever I could find them. <p> So one time, similar to yours, I had an ahah experience about an abstraction layer for a spidering application -- I fleshed it out in my travel log while spending several days in a dirt floor home in a tribal village in Flores, Indonesia. <p> Another time I had to patch and release one of my modules while waiting out a rainstorm on the coast of Vietnam from an excruciatingly slow net drop in a local net cafe. I already had to wait to find this cafe, because most of the cafes in Vietnam filter out the ssh protocol, but for some reason this one allowed it. <p> Hmm, this would make a good root node -- where's the strangest place you've ever coded? <p> Matt 206779 206896