I do not apologize for saying, once again, that obituaries are the cutting edge of modern journalism. I get my best ones in The Economist, which has a knack for doing right by the sung and the unsung. Case in point: Jack A. Weil, the man who puts snaps (press-studs), fancy yokes, pocket flaps and...

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• Someone has adopted this little bottle of orange detergent and is trying to hide it from everyone else! This is just the most seductive tale of office life I have read in a long time. (I know, I don't get out much.)¹

• A friend marveled to me today how the Europeans pride themselves on cho...

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Over at the other place I moaned a bit about the prevailing approach to the fact that African farmers do not seem to be clamouring for the latest technical developments.

There is no funding to promote these new technologies to farmers, and ... AGRA was spending US$50 million to fund a network...

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I do genuinely feel sorry for Dave Freeman, partly because 47 is just too young to die, and partly because if you’re going to tell everyone else what they should do before they die, then it can’t be a good thing not to have done it all yourself.

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On the road, and discovering the joys of connectivity in various places, one thing puzzles me. How come Google can remember what language I want my searches in, but not the language in which I want Reader to deal with me? In Italy, Reader has gone all Italian on me, while in Belgium it veered random...

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