The first appearance was when I recently flew down to southern Indiana to attend an annual IT advisory committee meeting. I used to drive to this meeting when I lived in Indianapolis, but now that we've moved to the northern part of the state, driving an 11-hour round trip for a two-hour meeting is a bit crazed. Luckily, there's a new commuter airline that gets me close to the university.

The first leg of the trip took me to Indianapolis, which still feels like my home airport even after a year away. There, I saw this ad, all big and backlit on the corridor wall across from my gate.

I thought this rather surprising, because being a straight-laced Midwestern city with a relatively small airport, I really did not expect to see this kind of program advertised in Indianapolis. I was obviously wrong. I cringed though, to see that it was still up in March with the originally November dates of the Give One Get One program still displayed.

Then, this morning, I drove to the grocery store to get much-needed comfort food after discovering my wife had contracted the flu. On the way, I heard this story about the OLPC program in South Africa on Morning edition. It was a good piece, and gave me the warm and fuzzies about how Linux was helping this program along.