Burying the Coyote

Since many of us had a love/hate relationship with the Coyote, partly due to the constant technical tweaks which stretched our non-geeky brains to the limit, can I suggest you chuck an example out of the window at Canary Wharf to mark its demise [Reuters prepares to bury Coyote]? As a courtesy to the City boys lurking beneath, perhaps that old beige body should be painted brilliant white so they can see it coming. If this sounds a tad extreme, you should know that the practice of throwing recalcitrant typewriters out of the window was not uncommon at the AP office in Farringdon Street back in the sixties. Admittedly, this was normally carried out in a drunken rage. I’m told you don’t get many of them on the Reuters World Desk these days. ■