Andy Capostagno Golf The Scots have a saying: “If there’s nae wind there’s nae golf.” Think about that when the cream of the world’s players are struggling through the links of Royal Birkdale this week. You will hear many seasoned professionals complain that it makes the game a lottery. Nick Price said during practice: “It […]

cube farms `So the other day this 404 and his lilo walked head on into the new chainsaw consultant right in front of the cube farm on the second floor. You should’ve seen the idea hamsters prairie dog.” Confused? To translate, consult our lingo dictionary below, and keep up to date with office gossip. n […]

Forget the business guru in a dark suit: today’s corporate motivators are trainers, modelled on the world of sport, writes Ian Wylie Sometimes they fall out, sometimes they get fired, but no one wins the soccer World Cup or Wimbledon without a coach. Every good athlete has a coach, helping them to break through barriers […]

Luke Harding Cg’ose Ntcox’o, an illiterate Botswanan artist, was delighted when British Airways (BA)bought one of her works. She promptly splashed out on seven cows, built herself a shack on the edge of the Kalahari desert, and gave the rest of the money to her many nomadic relatives. Last week, however, Ntcox’o was deeply unhappy […]

Philippe Dagen On show in France The 200th anniversary of the birth of the French painter Eugne Delacroix (1798-1863) is being celebrated by a series of exhibitions in France, each devoted to a different aspect of his work. The bicentenary exhibitions set a challenge: since Delacroix is being served up in pieces, why not try […]

Irwin Manoim A printer is a machine which artfully lines up a bunch of microscopic dots on paper to produce elegant love letters, invoices, poems, bar charts and school projects. Most of these sheets of paper go straight from the print tray to the waste bin, while the author experiments with changing the margins or […]

William Fotheringham Tour de France When Jan Ullrich effectively won the Tour de France in the second week of racing last year, his performance was so dominating that there were those, notably the five-times winner Bernard Hinault, who hailed the 23-year-old German as the man who would win the Tour into the millennium and beyond. […]

David Shapshak The real economic damage caused by computer crime is committed by insiders who already have access to networks, not hackers trying to prove their technical prowess, computer experts warn. Most computer crime is practised by organised crime syndicates, disgruntled employees, embezzlers and, rarely, hackers. The South African Police Service says it investigated an […]

Tangeni Amupadhi reports on the Groot Marico farmwatch system Oom Leon du Plessis stops mending a fence on his Nooitgedacht farm in the Groot Marico to tell about the night he was robbed and almost killed. It is almost noon and time to stop work, have a sip of mampoer and take a rest after […]

Neil Manthorp in Durham Cricket `Allow me to introduce myself – I’m your wife, Betty.” It was a cartoon on the front page of the Daily Telegraph and, as always, it touched a nerve with an abnormally high percentage of readers – most of whom were of the “class” to imagine it would be more […]