How come you manage to read as much books as I would take to an isolated island 4 the rest of my life

Caffeine, lots of Caffeine :). That, a few speed reading courses, and an extreme interest in everything technical and you're set.

Actually, I'm lying, I've really just created a construct program that directly interfaces with my neural net. From there it was just some LWP, HTML::Parser, quite simple really ;-).