Private State

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Feb 242005
 

What the Hell is going on with our nation?

The Royal Mail thing is annoying me enough as it is. More later maybe. but right now i have just seen BT trying to get rid of Phone boxes Privitisation may be good for allowing competition. but there are some things that cannot be privatised. Privatisation that allows cherry picking by the private sector just means that universal services like Phone Boxes, or Post Offcies, or Rural Deliveries get lost.

There are somethings the state should take care of. Private business, or any business that is meant to turn a profit, will not provide services like these. You cannot expect them to.

 Posted by Eddie at 3:11 pm

secure/obscure

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Feb 242005
 

No Free Lunch for me

I recieved my latest order from Scan yesterday (well, i spent one and a half hours making the hundred mile or so round trip to grantham) containing a wireless router, and a wireless net card.

The router is not yet plugged into the net, as my broadband does not go live until monday. but, I thought I would do some initial systems checking first…. The only router to appear however was my own one. This means that either 1) everyone else locally is bright enough to set up WEP (BT actually give the instructions in their quick start guide for their router) or 2) No one else has broadband within range. Now, whihc one it is is really open to interpretation…..

 Posted by Eddie at 1:12 pm

Tangibility

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Feb 242005
 

Call Us Old fashioned. But…

Whilst reading an article on Wired about Solar Towers to produce electricity I found the following comment

"There’s nothing like taking policy makers and investors to see something like that and kick the tires"

Adn that just struck me as a key part of modern engineering. Sure, you can give me as many glossy brochures, and piles of data as you like (and even those can be hard to get out of some vendors) but at the end of the day I want to know that your product works.

 Posted by Eddie at 11:41 am

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