Gissing is never more of a miserabilist than when trying to be light-hearted.

With each stroke she pressed the handstone down over the corn.

All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.