Where to start?

As I try to pull myself away from my other big project, my motorcycle, I’m pondering what project I should take up in my downtime. A little history…

I originally started coding at 15 or so, self-taught as many were back in the days before the internet and rampant nerd-dom. What I was drawn to was graphics, 3D stuff, games, all very visually stimulating. I dabbled in some other things but this was my love, the thing that kept me at the computer until dawn.
Since taking up software development as a career, I’ve swayed from this initial interest and followed the jobs available to me. I’ve written network code, UI code, web code, whatever.
So here I am, a crossroads in my development career. I’ve got the typical hacker creds: C/C++, some asm, some graphics API’s. I don’t have any experience in the newer web app type languages like C#, .NET, javascript is an afterthought as far as I’m concerned. Now do I jump in and learn these new technologies to keep myself employable? Or should I build on my past experience. May be time to dust off the 3D books and throw a few flashy demos together.

As I sort these things out for myself, I’ll try to keep a good blog going and hopefully provide some entertainment to others as I do it.