Posts by embraman

BT scores £146 meellion more UK.gov cash to fibre up Balamory

Re: This don't come cheap

My father in law lives at the tip of Lewis and has satellite broadband. It's certainly faster for him than my cable broadband in Edinburgh.

Maude to gov IT suppliers: If you are rubbish you will be binned

Couldn't agree more...

...about tidying up the procurement frameworks. And anyway, aren't those on the frameworks supposed to be good enough to deliver what's required? What's the timeframe for kicking poor performing companies OFF a framework? About 3 years looking at one I've just used. Give us public sector bods more flexibility to avoid the big boys who dominate and get complacent, and oh, I don't know, let us help stimulate the economy by using more SME's and developing good working relationships. That would be nice. *bashes self on head with GPS Framework RM591 [Lot2]*

A month to go on Cookie Law: Will Google Analytics get a free pass?

It's all right...

...we'll just wait to see what the BBC website does. If they do nothing, we can all follow suit. If they *do* do something, waith a bit, then copy it, on the basis that users will recognise what it's all about and not freak out when they visit your site. Or something.

Radiation TERROR on Scottish beach! Except it's quite safe

Er, no it hasn't

"A Scottish beach has been cordoned off as a "contaminated land" by environmental-protection authorities." Wrong. The beeb reports that SEPA has given the MOD until end of Feb to come up with a plan to clean up the beach, or it will declare it officially contaminated. Not a great start to your article Mr P.

DARPA drops another HTV-2

If this is an article about DARPA...

...why is it not written by Lewis Page? Not a single mention of boffins or boffinry. Disappointed.

MoD sticks with 'most decrepit browser in the world'

Sounds familiar

I'm in a smallish government directorate and we still use Word and Excel 97 along with the splendid IE6 and Acrobat Reader 6 as standard. (A long-promised corporate desktop is supposed to address the matter but we're still waiting).

The result is an inability to read or use some web pages and documents in the office that we have generated ourselves. The IT dept are generously turning a blind eye to downloads of up to date readers or Firefox but in the main it's a finger wagging if you get caught. Ludicrous.