A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
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.
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.