You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.