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.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
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.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
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