Ok, so gnat's reading out the awards for the "lifetime dedication to open source", and saying "this person wrote bind(8), ran one of the root servers...", etc. I realise the award must be going to Paul Vixie. Paul was actually sitting next to Penny and Brenda, goes up and fetches his award.

I realised that they hadn't mentioned another of the major programs he wrote - the humble cron(8). So, when he gets back, I pointed this out and said that was a great program too. I'm so glad I did.

"Oh, you liked that, did you?"

"Sure, I use it every day..."