"Please don't advocate learning to code just for the sake of learning how to code." What? I should only learn to code if I have a legitimate reason to? Nonsense. Never try to disuade somebody from learning something because they want to. So much of what we know about the world today, we know because somebody was curious. Now "because of the fat paychecks" I agree with. Both because the world doesn't need any more half baked professional programmers, and because the paychecks are rarely that fat!

I see a lot of irritation about this in my Twitter stream today. Whether you think this is a good or a bad thing, you certainly seem to have badly handled the introduction of it. People should not be finding out about this only when they need to visit a website for the first time, which is what seems to be happening. I certainly knew nothing about it until I read people's complaints about it. I'd be equally annoyed at having access to a website blocked just at the point when I needed it. Back to the drawing board, O2?