The Margin is grateful to its colleagues in the Financial Times for the following tale from the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. Despite an awesome array of technical know-how gathered at the conference centre, it appears that the Internet, which so many participants rely on in their daily lives, is not so, well, reliable.

During a packed session on 10 websites which will change the world, David Winer, President of Userland Software found his chosen site failed to work. And the website? The World Economic Forum's official website, of course.