I find that I am reading too many great programming books at the moment. I never get to the writing better code after part, as I find an even better book to read. the simple metric is meant to only be useful in that it gets me coding. I am working on something interesting at the moment, (TAOCP) but the learning I need to do to complete the books is going to keep me (happily) tied up for years - as I am trying to make sure I completely understand everything I those books. I am just looking for something to kept me coding while I go through the process.