Le Président et Miss Wade

were about 200 other e-mails in front of that one, most of them about something I owed somebody and they were asking why it was late. The thing is, I’m not one of those “late people.” Really. I love work and I hate being late and I pretty much never miss a deadline. I think being late is poor form, so I’m feeling a little like a dolt right now. It’s just that I’ve been so damn busy. So busy I wasn’t even able to fit a martini into my lunch break. Damn. Actually, I haven’t had a martini lunch in my

extraits de bandes dessinées. Sont à citer parmi eux, Le syndrome chinois (de James Bridge, 1979, avec Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas et Jack Lemon) qui met en scène un chargé de relations publiques en exercice, et The American Président -en français Le Président et Miss Wade- (de Rob Reiner, 1995, avec Annette Bening et Martin Sheen) qui a modifié les perceptions du lobbying, en ayant comme héroïne principale une « spécialiste de la stratégie politique des organisations », défendant une cause écologique

for accepting my crazy ideas about open source. Also, I'd like to thank my family for their continuous support, especially my parents and my brother for helping me whenever I needed. Thanks also to all the people in Galicia for that delicious food I miss so much when traveling around the world. Carlos Sanchez Many thanks to Jesse McConnell for his contributions to the book. It is much appreciated. All of us would like to thank Lisa Malgeri, Elena Renard and Joakim Erdfelt for their many contributions

Given the poverty of many libraries it would be good to recommend the Internet. However, you will rarely find anything substantial, apart from Euclid’s Elements (which it is certainly worth having); and you will, as always with Internet sources, have to wade through a great mass of unsupported assertions before arriving at reliable information. The St Andrews archive (www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/ history/index.html) does have almost all the biographies you might want, with references to further reading. If