The consolation for legs that won’t stop aching and veins letting rip with disconcerting symptoms of incipient varicosity – sad to say even our energetic and indefatigable correspondents aren’t quite as young as they used to be – is the opportunity the show provides for meeting up with old friends not seen in too many a long year, and Dick Pick was so bubbling with manifold number of things that it was difficult to get anything coherent out of him at all – but he did have some reason for his triumphant mien: he reckons that what he now calls Advanced Pick is Pick for All Time, that his life’s development work is finally done – all that’s left is to persuade the whole world that Pick is the finest operating system and database it has ever seen.