Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to Russell Brown,
We did drop a Jose video track from the end of the show so the discussion could keep on running, but I know what you mean
The moment with the hammer was enough. Still wincing...
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to John Holley,
You're right, it's never the tool you use, it's only the tools at the top that are to blame ;-)
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Given we’re discussing political lies, it seems appropriate to mention that Lindsay Perigo has been hired to be John Boscowan’s press secretary, at least, according to John Hartevelt.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Sounds like a mornings work.
;-)I note the smiley and so forebear to rant :-D #morningswork #pffft
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
So question; how much was it going to cost just to keep the old structure going and was it going to hell in a handcart anyway?
Having a single system for a particular function across an organisation is a good thing, in terms of maintenance costs, training, flexible job skills etc. But you plan for it, and implement it carefully and after much thought. Hide and company are used to popping down to Dick Smiths for a new copy of Word and they appear to imagine that big software implementations work much the same way. Hence the big bang approach from a single vendor.
A number of the IT people from the various councils saw this coming and lined up for the redundancy, and I can't blame them for that.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Richard Aston,
. They didn’t seem to talk to each other, crossed over on decisions etc.
I was at IRD (as well as running GOVIS) while the INCIS cockup was unravelling and we watched with interest. From the outside, it seemed that IBM proposed a system that, while ambitious for the time, could have been delivered if frozen at the moment of commission, but creeping featuritis became endemic as various entities sought to add "just one more thing" and no-one was prepared to say no. Also it was a time of rapidly changing technologies (eg the surge of TCP/IP overtaking data communications while we were debating the merits of X.400 and GOSIP) that some people wanted to bolt on to INCIS and others wanted to keep as far away as possible from.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Steve Barnes,
He's already said in TV interviews last year that some things (like copyright) might have to change in order to get better access for primary produce and he mentioned Pharmac then as one of the areas that the US wanted us to change.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Amy Gale,
Color me intolerant.
Okay, but I may go outside the lines.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Islander,
Yes, and in that case the term is accurate. You're not blind.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I don't like the term "Disabled" it seems to suggest total inability and idleness, as in Disabled printer or what have you.
With respect to words, blind people (for example) know they're blind. It's only the sighted that label blind people as "visually challenged", so they don't feel bad about using the word "blind".