I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today's top ten list. The category, while you relax with your paper or slouch in front of the computer screen . . .
Top ten reasons to give thanks . . . when you think you don't have any
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10. You have a newspaper (or computer "mouse") in your hand.
Thanks to Guttenberg's press and the World Wide Web you have access to more information today than all previous generations combined.
According to a 2000 University of Berkley study, "the world produces 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, or roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman and child on earth."
Just in case you're wondering, an "exabyte" is equal to 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 "bytes" or 250 book-length bits of information for every person on the planet!
9. You live in a country that either a) allows freedom of the press, b) at least allows access to my ramblings in print or online, or c) hasn't arrested you yet for reading my column.
8. You can read this column.
According to UNICEF, 885 million people in this world can't read. That's one in six of every person on the planet.
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