*I can't believe it took me this long to figure out that the Ubuntu guy is the same guy as the tourist-cosmonaut guy. "Shuttleworth." You couldn't make up a name like that. Really, people wouldn't stand for it.
*I wonder what Shuttleworth was doing while he was skating along up there in orbit.
Unpacking tar and .gz files, maybe.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4646261136.html
"Some background: Shuttleworth studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town and went on to found Thawte, a company specializing in digital certificates and Internet privacy. He sold Thawte to VeriSign in 1999 and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City and Khazakstan. In April 2002, Shuttleworth flew in space as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004, he founded the Ubuntu project based on Debian Linux, which aims to produce a free, high-quality desktop OS for everybody."
(((That is a seriously weird career. It sounds like something out of a Heinlein novel.)))
