Hasta la Victoria Siempre, GDS! This is not the end, no way

For Digital Millennials it was an epoch-defining event. Like the assassination of Kennedy, or the fall of Thatcher, everyone will remember what they were doing the moment they heard the shock news. Perhaps you were blue-skying a gamification concept at Second Home. Perhaps you were at The Trampery, teaching some visiting …

[Mage]

Who is pretending to be Steve Bong?

That all made total sense.

[Chris Miller]

Re: Who is pretending to be Steve Bong?

You have been assimilated - welcome to the Borg, you are 4 of 9.

[Anonymous Coward]

That needed to be said. As following Stalin's death, some truths can now be mentioned without fear.

[Anonymous Coward]

"That needed to be said. As following Stalin's Beria's death, some truths can now be mentioned without fear."

Worth remembering when looking at government surveillance plans - even Molotov was frightened of Beria (NKVD head.)

[Kubla Cant]

Stick it

The icon of a triangle surmounted by two circlets is a brilliantly economical representation of pushing something upwards into an orifice. On what kind of page did they see it being used?

As Mage says, the reality is beyond satire.

[Dick Pountain]

Re: Stick it

Oh, I thought it was Wi-Fi waves being repelled by a tinfoil hat

[Mephistro]

Priceless...

That sticker with "gov.uk - 4th July" is just priceless!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Slogan

trust users deliver - why when shortening it do I keep thinking turd, most be some mystical subliminal effect of the branding makes me Add the r

[Trollslayer]

You couldn't make it up

But I am hoping someone did.

[Anonymous Coward]

Son of a gun...

I searched for that preposterous quote "made GDS a household name" just to see if Google would say "did you mean made GDS an outhouse name?" And instead it gave me this:

http://diginomica.com/2015/08/04/mike-brackens-exit-leaves-gds-at-a-crossroads-the-return-of-the-oligopoly/#.VcUCzPmqqko

I thought the Bong! articles were just bitter bilious satire, but it turns out they're just abridged versions of the craziness out there, the Reader's Digest of UK digi-wonkdom.

[Fungus Bob]

These ¡Bong! articles....

...are offal, just offal.

[Ashton Black]

Re: These ¡Bong! articles....

Oh come on... have a heart! (or a lung, spleen etc and so on.)

[Fungus Bob]

Re: These ¡Bong! articles....

I lack the intestinal fortitude (he said with tongue in cheek)...

[Captain DaFt]

ACH!

I blame myself for this article.

"Mention the devil and he soon appears."

[Disgusted of Cheltenham]

Trolls and those with good questions will go hungry

Jordan gone? That might explain why there was no blogged answer to the question as to why there is no systematic structure for the websites to handle pages with versions in different languages.

gc.ca managed this before he was born, and .eu and directgov somehow manage(d).

https://www.gov.uk/cymraeg still has just

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