Think I'm going to have to start looking into modding for minecraft.
I'm tired of this night time tomfoolery. If I can figure out how to mod it I'm going to increase the monsters AI range to something closer to 500 blocks. I want my nights to be a siege of the living dead and foul beasts, a dark swarm that throws themselves upon my keep at the rising of the moon, not a mild inconvenience. Might also make it so creepers are non aggressive during the day/burn in light, otherwise morning clean up would be a nightmare.
Would like to do something along the lines of having them break down wooden doors, or creepers setting fires instead of exploding, but something tells me that's easier said than done.