It hogged so much of the processor on our test PC, even our mouse pointer could only twitch.

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Although the open-necked shirts of egalitarianism hogged magazine covers during the internet boom, plutocratisation was actually the dominant trend.

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"He hogged the headlines on the day of an international match and it was all about Craig Bellamy, " said Toshack.

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But although politics hogged the news, economics held the key.

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But as Mr Duhalde's battle with the president has hogged the headlines for months, Mr de la Rua has watched his lead in the opinion polls melt away.

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When they add nothing, as lambic-makers do, the untreated wort becomes a refuge for airborne wild microflora, which now have space to grow and food that would otherwise be hogged by beer yeast to eat.

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Outside in the great hall, Mr Allister hogged the microphone so long that Peter Robinson, pointing to his watch, eventually led a phalanx of his MLAs in more or less nudging the TUV leader out of the way.

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Mark Russinovich of SysInternals did a detailed analysis of a "rootkit" (their word, not ours) he found on his PC, and discovered that, not only was it surreptitiously installed when he played a protected CD, but it also hogged system resources and integrated itself into Windows so deeply that uninstalling it disabled his CD drive.

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