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More shambles
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 02:37 pmThe Department is slipping further back in the application of technology by increments. We are standing still and the world is marching on.
The first thing that happened was some months ago now, when suddenly Hotmail wouldn’t work on our browsers. The site isn’t blocked, but the combination of odd formatting and java links are just not supported by our browser, which has all the bells and whistles either removed or battened down so tight as to be useless. There’s no particular business case to having access to hotmail at work, so we just lumped it.
Other sites have become inaccessible – or partially inaccessible - over the months, but not really caused any problems, now the latest iteration of streetmap.co.uk has been redesigned to a level that our poor browser cannot cope with. We can go to streetmap, we can enter the name, postcode or grid reference of the place we want, no problem. Streetmap will then look for it as usual. But then it fails to display the map, the entire point of the exercise.
I am going to have to bring an A-Z in to work for the first time in years. So much for the paperless office.
The first thing that happened was some months ago now, when suddenly Hotmail wouldn’t work on our browsers. The site isn’t blocked, but the combination of odd formatting and java links are just not supported by our browser, which has all the bells and whistles either removed or battened down so tight as to be useless. There’s no particular business case to having access to hotmail at work, so we just lumped it.
Other sites have become inaccessible – or partially inaccessible - over the months, but not really caused any problems, now the latest iteration of streetmap.co.uk has been redesigned to a level that our poor browser cannot cope with. We can go to streetmap, we can enter the name, postcode or grid reference of the place we want, no problem. Streetmap will then look for it as usual. But then it fails to display the map, the entire point of the exercise.
I am going to have to bring an A-Z in to work for the first time in years. So much for the paperless office.