Gosh I wish I would stop using up all my votes at the beginning of the day. Someone ++ him a few times :) .

jjhorner, I don't know if it would interest you, but check out AI and GO, perhaps that sort of thing would be an interesting learning experience? Also there is the area of distributed applications, and distributed computing that can be both related and different from your current pursuit that would be useful to others and yourself.

Just some thoughts,
Gryn

p.s. I wish I could be Gryn and not gryng :P