Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

All too often we get mired in the short-term battles. The PC industry is good at increasing megahertz and megabits, but it requires more fundamental changes than that, ... systems still look like the PC IBM introduced years ago.

In private they're talking big time about England's reverse swing and this is a huge hurdle for them to overcome.

I still think we're going to win the Ashes.

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Both players were going so well that I was intrigued by their decision to take the offer of bad light,