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Last weekend, as I was munching away on a sweet home grown carrot from our own backyard, I let my mind wander with the wind and ponder pointless profoundities. An interesting, but totally useless statistical question occurred to me.

That we are all ultimately made of dust from the distant stars is indisputable. But what, I pondered, might be the odds that an atom of carbon in my crunchy carrot was the same atom in a molecule of CO₂ I had exhaled earlier?

Today, Linux is a beautiful thing and I typically waste no opportunity to evangelize it to friends considering a new desktop purchase. I mean, if the average user today calculates how much of his or her computer time is spent either on-line or within office applications, it seems like common-sense to buy a Linux desktop with Firefox and Open Office rather than buy expensive Microsoft products. Homer Simpson captures the sentiment best in the opening line of the latest Bart Simpson flick. Why would someone pay hard-earned cash to get something we can get for free? We're all giant suckers!