It was the 40th birthday of Lee Newman, MD of W+K Amsterdam, the other day. They had cupcakes with his head on. Cool? Or creepy in a cannibalistic kind of way? YOU decide!

In a typical abuse of power I recently got a lovely new laptop and my old but still serviceable model was passed on to someone else. The recipient pointed out that wear and tear on my old keyboard seemed to indicate that two letters were subject to much heavier use than the others: "N…O".

Hmmm. Need to work on that motivational management technique.