On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.