Mr Obasanjo refused to sign it, for fear of stoking inflation and irking Nigeria's foreign creditors, whom he is trying to persuade to write off some of the country's debts.

ECONOMIST: The mysteries of Nigerian justice

But it's also more difficult because I'm trying to write in secret on some level and people know who I am.

WSJ: Dan Brown returns to Europe for 'Inferno'

Some are so intimidated by the threatening notice they write a check without trying to respond further.

FORBES: Stop the Machine! IRS Document Mismatches, Form 8949

Khanna said Microsoft is trying to ease that workload by building some of the changes into the application programming interfaces (API) so developers can write to the APIs instead of building the coding into the applications.

CNN: graphic