"I knew that this would be a strange day.
"On the ride over to Microsoft's impromptu press conference, the taxi driver began riffing about how rainy days were good for sleeping in and watching porn.
"A few minutes later, I had a front-row seat to watch Steve Ballmer publicly put the final coda on a decade of dispute in the computer industry as he posed for a handshake with Ron Hovsepian, his opposite number at Novell..."
