Analogies are like a box of chocolate: a mismatched array of ideas packed as a whole bysugar-coating them with the same truth. Usually turns out a bit too darkand bitter to make it palatable.

To quote Steve Jobs [paraphrasing Pablo Picasso]: "Good artists copy; great artists steal." And in the words of Benjamin Disraeli:  "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Recently, there’s been a bit of a stir in the online tech community over the numbers being reported for the battery life on laptops, notebooks, and netbooks.