More shambles

[caddyman]

The 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.

Comments

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

What about Google Maps? Or does that use the same technology? I'm just a googlephile I'm afraid :)

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

You'll probably find that these London mas work well enough on your low-tech office equipment...

http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm

[irdm.livejournal.com]

A midlevel of streetmaps has never worked for me.
I tend to use MultiMap which now includes an OS view.

[irdm.livejournal.com]

Note how I didn't rant about websites not serving webpages anymore but non-standard rubbish full of improper add-ons.

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

I think it was around 1995 when I first became conscious of the then-new fangled concept "paperless office"! We're still reliant on paper to varying degrees some 14 years later for "paperwork" ... not good.

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Sir, you give me hope. I can rest easy knowing that Big Brother is as IT unkompitant as the rest of the world, and thus my many foibles and interests that make catch the attention of the All Seeing Eye will be stored in an obsolete format on machines supplied by the lowest bidder, run by admins who work under IT policies imposed upon them from upon high, IT policies created by people who got their position because they are good at policy but not IT, and that in 5 years the data will be mangled, lost, or just plain unreadable.