The world is flat ...

Finally someone has explained one of the most frequently mis-cited academic works in communication. Here's a link for your own reference: http://www.kaaj.com/psych/

Obituary for a fish named Benson ("The Economist")

Benson, England’s best-loved fish, died on July 29th, aged about 25

Aug 13th 2009 From The Economist print edition

PETERBOROUGH, in the English Midlands, is a red-brick town, best known as the midway point on the line between King’s Cross and York. But from the bottom of Kingfisher Lake, just outside it, urban toil seems far away. There, all is most delightful silt and slime. A push of your probing nose sends up puffs and clouds of fine mud through the water. A riff of bubbles rises, silvery, towards the surface. The green reeds quiver, and sunlight ripples down almost to the depths where you are lurking, plump and still.

Such was mostly the life, and such was the address, of Benson, England’s most famous fish. Her actual place of birth, as a wriggling, transparent fry prey to every frog, pike and heron, was never known. But at ten, when she was stocked in Kingfisher, she was already a bruiser. And there, among the willow-shaded banks, she grew. And grew. At her peak weight, in 2006, she was 64lb 2oz (29kg), and was almost circular, like a puffed-up plaice. Bigger carp have been seen in Thailand and in France; but she still amounted to a lot of gefilte fish.

Read the whole story here: Benson | The Economist

Leave your Wifi open to all

I'm not quite sure how to handle this suggestion from an internet style guide (in German): http://www.zeit.de/online/2009/32/bg-internet-knigge?9

What I do have is another suggestion. I named my wifi with an email address, so that anyone who sees it can send me an email and ask to access it. In the last 24 months no requests were received. This does sort of indicate a lack of demand, doesn't it?

Anyhow, it does cater for "reciprocal altruism", because at least I know who is benefiting from my altruism.

Now, I did once have a landlord, whose son worked at JUNGvMATT and I am regularly at the Sparkassenakademie in Bonn with trainings for participants of the MBA programme, but I never expected this honour. Thanks to all contributors!

Especially if you consider that the man depicted is effectively lost!

The picture is of Asians waiting at the arrival gate. Asians are known for having difficulty in pronouncing the letter "R", which becomes "L", rendering the man arriving at the airport as "Mr Lost". It never bothered me, when dealing in the Far East, but somehow I can not see how this would work in the ad?

By the way, does anyone know who this perpetrating Mr Huebner is?