Newbie help

Hi me being a newbie i'm after some help, i'm wondering if anyone who is well into ardiuno like to give some 1 to 1 pal up tuition i'm in east london, i've got a few things a Arduino Duemilanove w/ Atmega328, ShiftBrite Shield, Shifty VU Shield, starter kits 1= 5mm RGB LEDs (Super Flux) (x3) 2= 8 x 8 Bi-Colour LED Matrix i've made the led blink wow! well thats a start i've been head down into books that slow for me :-? getting what i can from the net, i have a project in mind i want to do please check it out http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1255260965
or maybe if anyone no's of a arduino clubs going on in or around the london area might help either way will be cool and a big help to me, i was out just to do 1 project but the more i look into things that people are doing with this cool arduino, the more ideas i come up with my project in mind, but without a boost of help things will b slow :frowning:
So please do check out my project and get back with any help will be appreciated.
Thanks all :slight_smile: :-? :-?