long and winding road

Every so often readers write in offering to sell copies of The Last Samurai and asking how to set this up. If they were professional bookse...

more on Baumann

Got a belated comment from a reader, Glen McGhee, on an old post on Baumann, which I am now hauling out of the comments folder because I lik...

couper la difficulté en quatre

I got a wonderful e-mail from a Russian reader, Elena Davos, who has kindly allowed me to quote some of it: It all started with “The Last ...

the g is silent, or, the panda's thumb

An old interview with Brian Kernighan, translated from the Romanian... The languages that succeed are very pragmatic, and are very often fai...

Packstation awaits

Got an e-mail saying I had a new package at Packstation. Went to the Post Office with my card, typed in my ID, tapped the screen a few time...

hard not to love

Could hypnosis be a cure for hair loss? The placebo study for a hair growth drug called Propecia is interesting, because it shows that the b...

that clinking clanking sound

Came across the blog of a bookseller in Boulder. Back in December he had a post about trying to cut his orders by 20%. Wrote: The very fir...