Stuff for Nerds
Archive for November, 2010
Australian Government 2.0 a Big Fat Fail
Nov 17th
Well it had to come out sooner or later. Hiding behind that thinly veiled Gov 2.0 policy is nothing more than just the head of state, head of country or head of whatever group is under you participating in social media. All other employees are completely blocked. That means, no facebook, no twitter, no myspace, hell even the Gizmodo home page is blocked. And don’t get me started on Google services.
Take note politicians, the public are fast becoming tired of these obviously two faced press releases. Time to face facts.
http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/43276-gartner-grades-gov-20-a-fail
Picture courtesy of Twitter: The Famous Fail Whale
Broken Pits Here, Broken Pits There, Broken Pits Everywhere
Nov 16th
Telstra - Broken Pits
The NBN is on the way to delivery and so is the sale of Telstra infrastructure which was once previously owned by the taxpayer valued at approximately $11B AU as it stands.
During my travels around the Brisbane area what is becoming increasing familiar is the yellow tubular temporary fencing that Telstra use when there are works happening on pits and trenches on footpaths or where there are damaged pits awaiting recification.
I have started to take notice of the damaged pits in my area and some of them have had the yellow fencing in place for well over 6 months. Within a 500m radius from my residence there are at least 3 damaged pits that have been sitting for months with the barricade around them.
Telstra are holding off on maintenance as much as possible so once again the taxpayer will be paying for rectification of the pathways that they once owned.
I sincereley hope that Sen. Conroy has allowed for funding of cable pathway rectifications works in that $43B.
Seems like a bit of a co-incidence to me.
What do you think?
