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. (Ken Thompson)

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.

Ken Thompson

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