Whoa, mama, the jargon is fast and furious in here, but at least I'm getting a lot of great ideas.
@ixmatus: You sound really passionate about Python and I think it's starting to spread to me, too. Now I know it's definitely worth a look. I just hope I can find some offline documentation for it.
@Apollia: Web development has also piqued my interest, though I'm not sure whether to focus on that or more local software development. As for Inform, well, I never was very good at Zork, so I dunno about that one :V