I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.