OMGosh!!!
PERL OWZORZ ME!!!!!!!
ok ok let me take a deep breath.....
altho i have just started learning perl and scripting in perl. this is like the BOMB!!!.
you remember when you started shell scripting and you felt limitless. this is how i feel now. how could i have ever lived my life w/o perl? i have no clue i can tell you that.
all that will be comming out of my mouth for a while is perl perl perl perl.
PERL..... then PHP 
another great frontier
Duh! :rolleyes:
Now download Activate State Perl for Win32 and show your "skillz" under both Unix and Win32. Laugh at those that would have you use WMI under Win32. Scoff at them and show them your Camel-Fu! 
DBD::INFORMIX is the worst thing in the entire known world!!!
i hate it!! it took me 2 days to get everything i needed and configured to build the darn thing. ;/
i feel like a human libary in the p[ast 2 maby 2.5 months i have read 7 books almost 8 while i was at work. ;{ my head and eyes cant take it anymore!!!!
System Performance Tuneing
Learning Perl
Programming Perl
Perl DBI (almost done)
and 4 Ann Rice vampire books.
Lol... not only do you read fiction while at work (hey I would if I could too - alas I'm restricted to reading on breaks), but you also place Anne Rice books in the same category as computer reference books 