1,000 posts

I was very interested when Eileen told me that we're heading towards our 1,000th post. She seems - as is the case with many of the less numerate - to assign special importance to apparently round numbers.
I have pointed out to her that 1,000 only seems important because we happen to have ten fingers, and therefore use base 10. Indeed, a much more important number in the universal and IT world would be 1,024 - or "one K" as programmers would refer to it. Consider, compared to the shortness of 1,000 base 10, 1,024 is written in binary as 10000000000. Now that's what I call a round number.

Anyway, Eileen's very excited and I can't wait to hear what she's going to say. Congratulations, Archdruid! And enjoy your 1,000th post!