“For some little American coin, we were given command of a bright blue boat with a sail twice or three times the size of my handkerchief in which to dare the halcyon waters of the lake.”

“The halcyon weather had vanished at last, and winter had come in earnest.”

“Ah, it takes me back to those heady, halcyon days of 1999 when any idea that remotely involved the Web was funded to the gills in a matter of weeks.”