Electronics project getting off the ground...

At last, more than a month since I first started buying the necessary parts to build a few electronics projects I had in mind, my first electronics project is slowly under way. When embarking on microcontroller-based projects, the first project you have to build before you build the one you had in mind, is the programming circuit (a circuit that enables you to download the program into the chip in the first place). Here I'm prototyping the PicBlaster programmer (no, it's not complete yet). Already though, I have reached a stumbling block - I bought what I thought were 6 4.7K Ohm resistors, but it turned out to be just one 4.7K resistor and 5 470K Ohm ones. Gaargh! Lesson learned - check exactly what it is they are giving you before going home! Resistors are cheap, the real problem is the incredible inconvenience!