John - is there a teenager in your family or in your neighborhood you can enlist? I'm not kidding, really. My parents got their first internet guidance from the minister's teenage son. This after my father retired as a systems analyst.

Learning from a real person is much better than a book. In the computer field, by the time a book is published, it's generally obsolete. A kid will show you all the nifty-neato stuff that really wakes up your interest. Have fun and good luck!

jeffp