Its Windows CE, ostensibly for consumer electronics, is flailing, largely because Microsoft has taken a PC mentality to develop CE, unable to give up the ghost of its heritage.

It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success. […] In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.

All a publisher has to do is write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.