Cyber faluire
Same story this week.
It never ceases to amaze me that, a country that is so good at creating the contents of website - evidenced by the BBC news, Guardian Unlimited - can be so bad at managing IT eqipments. When I was attending a lecture in the lab this Tuseday and Wednesday, the computers just broke down any time it liked. One time the whole class even had to be dismissed earlier - for there was no point in teaching Quark when you could not use the computer.
And the Intener connection in the hall is just getting ridiculous. The management simply blames the problems on the private Internet provider, to which it made the choice to switch in the first place. Now nobody really want to take care of the problem. They have been saying the internet is going to improve in the next week - for 2 months. They even told me the internet is not on the contract and is free, which is totally no true according
the webpages of the school (rolling down to the "Rent and Contracts").
Whn I pointed out this to them, they just said it's "my point of view", "it's just a web statement" and "we cannot provide any further information". I kinda feel these guys are acting like criminals. Time to exercise the FoI act.
Digital Village
Digital Village is the ISP my hall is contracted to. It's a pain in the ass, very slow and unstable. Yesterday I was posting here, but the my computer logged off automatically, and I lost everything. Now I am typing in a lab.
I try to make some slogans for this ISP. Anyone who is willing to do the same, please join in:
"Digital Village. Simply the worst."
"I never know internet can be so slow until Digital Village comes."
"@&*&87!! Digital Village has done it again."
" Digital Village- the disgrace of British IT industry."
"Fuck the punters. Digital Village rules."
"Sue me if u want. Digital Village ain't gonna improve."
"The future is online. And it's a sad future. J-U-S-T ask Digital Village."
Guy Fawkes Night
Remeber, remember, the fifth of November
Fire powder is in the air...
Outside the firework is playing, sounds like a bomb
Guy was a terrorist 300 years ago
Now people wear his masks to celebrate
Britain is run like an old classic machine
But anarchy here never dies
The orginal rhyme:
Remember remember the 5th of November,
The Gunpowder, Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah!
(Photo Credit:Dougie Macdonald)
