I just noticed that SFD 2009 is scheduled to occur on International Talk
Like a Pirate Day (19 Sep). Is that intentional, perhaps to raise the
topic of software piracy or something? Or was it just a coincidence? I'm
betting the SFD t-shirts and artwork this year have some sort of pirate
theme! :)

-Steve

Clearly, then, we should all remember to promote this Free Software project:

http://www.r-project.org/

Arrrrrr! ;-)

(And let's not forget about the "sea" programming language, but mentioning "sea plus plus" won't be necessary.)