We first had rumours of a Wall Street Journal article suggesting the Fed had mapped out a strategy for the winding down of QE.

FORBES: Why Central Bankers Rule The World

Maybe we all might have gotten a lot more sleep had we known about recent results of another GRACE satellite study published in the journal Nature that shows that Himalayan glaciers are hardly melting at all.

FORBES: Man The Lifeboats! Global Warming Has Oceans Rising At Alarming Rate! (Or Maybe not)

By the way, I'd mentioned here that last week we had polls released that indicated Americans - 53 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal poll - still consider the war a mistake, and 54 percent are willing to support a candidate who promises to pull U.S. troops out in a year.

NPR: Congress Debates Iraq, Bush Readies for EU Trip

We may have had only one owner for several generations, but the Journal has undergone enormous change: from a one-section newspaper narrowly focused on markets for subscribers in New York to today's global business franchise across print, online and other digital media platforms.

WSJ: A Report to Our Readers

At age 43 Will is an old Asian hand, having spent 20 years in these parts, a dozen of which were for the Wall Street Journal and its parent, Dow Jones, where we had first met.

FORBES: Force of Will