As near-perfect a book as I've come across. A brilliantly crafted work. This is great, McEwan is getting better.

I don't have a camera, and Kazim only sent photos of me!

This is a reservoir...

Kazim lent me this book after our jaunt in the Malverns. His copy has a US flag with swastikas as the stars. He hoped it would get me funny looks on my train journey home (it didn't).

There are several books that I've had to stop reading due to psychological …

From my friends' experience, the main barrier to wider adoption of desktop Linux is that it can't play MP3 files out of the box (due to software patents). So I was interested in the FSF's Play Ogg website. This does a good job of explaining the issue. Please will the …

Here's Bill's plant. It reminds him of cobblestones.

I read MacLeod's The Star Fraction over a year ago now. I enjoyed it, and Newton's Wake is even better. Apparently the guy used to be a computer programmer, then turned his hand to sci-fi. I've toyed with writing a book, but with software I just [have]{style="font-style: italic …

We were discussing racism, and my dad recommended The Chamber. I'd heard people talk about John Grisham, and I must admit I'd avoided him. However, the Chamber was very well written. Good plot, and Grisham really does capture the mood of the prison in the American south (I say that …

A colleague talked of the:

unpaid digital sharecropping edifice of Wikipedia

This has a nice rhetorical ring to it, but is wrong because it's an analogy between physical goods and information. Property and information obey completely different rules, so you can't reason by analogy between them.

If someone makes a …

The thing is that they ask you for these things separately, but then don't publish them as part of the listing! Anyway, I've put in the size in the text, and it does say Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

Hi Tony,

From my limited understanding of the subject, size and location are the two most important things when it comes to allotments. I think including these in your add might just tip the balance. Good luck.

Bill