Sat 2007-03-03 Not a phrase you are likely to have come across often. It occurs in a blog post by John Hawkes in which he discusses an article on Robert Sapolsky's work on stress-related disease in baboons.
Fri 2007-03-02 Round at the local shop this morning I noticed the above headline in the Reading Chronicle. This set me thinking. Here are a few suggestions:
Number 2 would probably have been the favorite had Reading FC managed to come back from 3 goals down against Manchester United on Tuesday evening ("Coppell" is the surname of the Reading FC manager). Sonning is a small picturesque village a few miles down-river, the residents of which appear all to be millionaires. Tilehurst is a suburb of Reading. The last one is in recognition of the large number of Polish workers in the town, so many in fact that the Reading Chronicle actually prints a Polish language edition.
More details of the renaming plan can be found at the Reading Chronicle Blog.
Sat 2007-02-24 
A photo that I took one sunny afternoon last month. I was trying to take some pictures of tree reflections in the Reading University middle lake when this family came and started feeding bread to the ducks and geese.
Fri 2007-02-23 From an interview by Bill Venners on Artima Developer in 2002:
To me, object design is a design of contracts. Contracts define what you are allowed to rely on. Contracts are not expressible in anything less than a human language. You need to have someone sit down and say, if this is true then that happens. You have to spell out all the details.
