I'm not sure yet whether it's worth doing or not...

It sounds it to me! Of course that's easy to say from the outside, where I can just hope to read about it at the end and not have to do the grunt work in the middle. But it sounds a lot like something I tried to think and wanted to talk about when I was in college, befriending and dating geeks. I used to say I felt like a geek anthropologist, and I liked that.

I went from someone totally unused to computers (my family didn't have one until I was in high school, and didn't have the internet until after I'd left home for college) to someone who was thought to be the resident geek in her hall of residence in a year, and in another year I started using Linux. And one of the command-line heavy versions, too! Yet I'm still not a computer programmer or even someone who particularly likes computers as such, I just like the internet because all my friends live there. :) So I've been through lots of the stages of tech-savviness and I like to think I have some sympathy for most of them, and that's why I'm interested in all this.