Books currently crowding my bedside shelf - The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes - hugely enjoyable Bloodaxe Collection of Finnish Poetry - brilliant Writing GNU Emacs Extensions 501 French Verbs - I mean, where do they get 501? ( and 413 Welsh Verbs - just where do they get the numbers from ?) Rough Guide to to France Programming Perl, 3rd ed XSLT Java (the mag not the language) Never Entered - Rebecca Wolff - excellent L'Etranger - Camus Content is not king - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/ TV go home - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/ (Both excellent counter-intuitive articles) reading a lot as one of our cats barfed on the remote control and killed it dead. It's little green light don't flicker no more. I feel I should bury it. I might well do. Roger.