I've read your columns sporadically in the past, and they've been very useful because I've found ones that were very close to issues was dealing with at the time. Thanks for writing them :).

Edit: Now that I think about it, lack of native immersion is probably one of the big reasons my progress is slower than I'd like. At my jobs, I've always been surrounded by Java or C++ guys, or PHP/Python guys. Add to that the fact that I'm not using Perl all day, and Perl doesn't end up with the brain share I want it to have.