Adam Davidson is an American reporter who has been in Baghdad for many months, and in his 'spare time' helped start Iraq's first LUG. We sent him your questions last week, and he's replied in great detail, not only about the LUG itself but also with a rare 'geek's eye view' of daily life in Baghdad, and comments about how the Iraqi IT infrastructure (and laws controlling it) are being (re)built.

These are LinuxWorld columnist Nick Petreley's answers to your questions about the (somewhat controversial) Evans Data Survey he helped analyze that shows Linux is taking more market share from Windows than from Unix.

If you're reading this, you're probably what economists call a "Knowledge Worker," a major element of the new, techno-driven workplace. The government says your average work week is 32.9 hours, and employers enthusiastically agree. Nuts. Thanks to laptops, cellphones, palm pilots and wireless modems, you're probably working nearly all the time, part of every day and night. How many hours do you really work? Post below and read more.

Talin and I have been corrosponding recently, and one of the subjects that came up was debilitating hand and wrist injuries in geek friends and people we know. In fact, for those you who follow science fiction/fact at all, author David Brin has been suffering from these problems quite recently. One of the major issues is the different types of problems, and misdiagnosis. We know how dependent we are on our hands-how many people do you know with problems? Do you worry about this? Any helpful hints for others? Click below for the letter from David.