Duvet-Dayz.com: use this bar code to access our RSS feeds and posts on your mobile phone
Archive for December, 2007
UK: What went wrong with the Civil Service
From a letter to the Daily Telegraph responding to the article “Why is the Civil Service a laughing stock?” by Philip Johnston
Sir – After a career of nearly 43 years in Westminster, I can tell Philip Johnston what has gone wrong with the Civil Service.
When I joined, it was a monolithic organisation, staffed by people who cared more for public service than for money, recruited with decent qualifications from an education system that worked, promoted in part by competitive examination, untainted by political bias and undiluted by endless useless management consultants.
Since then, the politicians have destroyed its public-service ethos by transferring so many to profit-making bodies, undermined its career structure by the wholesale importation of “here today, gone tomorrow” interlopers, forced party-political considerations to replace national ones and outsourced vital functions to private companies whose costs are exceeded only by their incompetence…
continue reading…
Humor: Old software never dies
So that’s how Web 2.0 companies are created. I wonder if the VCs are calculating a full system rewrite into any of them…
continue reading…
Images of the week: Trees around the world
This post starts a weekly series where we will select images on different subjects from various sources on the web. This week we’re a bit short on time so we just browsed our image archives…
continue reading…
