> I said I'm bad at writing "large" documents - which is presumably what a 
> final PhD thesis is. Also, all of my work at uni that involved any element 
> of what academics refer to as "research" was extremely hard for me. I have 
> no idea what "research" actually is, or how you're supposed to do it. As I 
> understand it, a PhD is 82% research...

Didn't you have to do a final year project at university?  Usually that is 
meant to be something relatively novel and consists of writing a big report, 
so presumably that would be a good introduction for what you would be doing 
during a PhD.

One example that I heard you mention before of research, is getting Haskell 
to work on a GPU.

Here are some more examples of research that I'm sure you would be 
interested in:

http://research.microsoft.com/research/default.aspx
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/research.html

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