And I just graduated having studied History and History of Art with a master's degree in Humanities, and for my thesis I wrote on the medieval and Renaissance interpretation of an ancient Greek climatic idea called the "torrid zone"--yet I'm also maintaining AbiWord for Maemo and backporting Gtk+ from Fremantle to Diablo and Mer!

The true failure, not with him as a reviewer of course but in general, is that more people don't get involved with open source. I started as a user who simply wanted to get more stuff done with his computer.

I should add, too, that my love of the internet tablets and my desire to improve them stems directly from my graduate research, which made me think very carefully about the connection between the physical way we create and communicate our ideas and their quality. Perhaps if he had composed his dissertation on an N800 as I intend to he would have been a better writer (I'm serious).

BTW, I was working on my own translation, I hope no one minds if I post it this afternoon once I'm done. Ich will zu immer ein Schritt voraus stellen anmuten nicht, aber das ist fur mich eine rare Gelegenheit zu ubersetzen mit Deutschen Mutterspracheleren =).