[geeks] Newspaper Web Sites

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 15:51:35 CDT 2007


Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:05:48 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> position better suited for their aptitude--like digging ditches.
>> I bet you they could screw that up too.
> 
> s/could/do/
> 
> One of work's biggest network outages was caused by someone who was
> told he was digging in the wrong place, carried on and chopped out a
> major inter-site cable.

Were they former web designers?  8;->

> And a few weeks ago BT managed to break a *large* gas main close to
> the motorway into Portsmouth, closing it for 48 hours. Being an island
> with only two large roads into it, Portsmouth was full of very
> frustrated commuters those two days. 

On a tangent, I once considered moving to Portsmouth, but the job fell 
through.  I like the south coast.

Peace...  Sridhar



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