Under the counter

To be FrankJust back from FOW's show in Frankfurt following a hair raising descent at London City airport which left me crying out for another large gin (though in all honesty most landings, take offs and indeed periods of straight and level flying do that) and I thought you would like to hear some of the chatter going round the event. First up was the non-appearance of keynote speaker Rudi Ferscha, leaving a decent sized hole in the conference programme and a lot of questions on people's lips. Well, I can exclusively reveal that all is well with Ferscha; he was simply unavoidably detained with the phenomenal work commitments that crop up from time to time. To some people, anyway. It seems these...