Once I get a job, can earn enough to get Flash (already used up my trial period) and have time to learn flash/actionscript (which is after I find a job) I will be attempting to 'liven' up the forums with my own mini-side-project.
Hopefully won't take too long to find a job - I have already read up a ton of tutorials on flash platformers so have a general idea of the 'main' code and how it all works (in terms of what mindset one must be in to have things work out in flash).