You can't get humour like this any more.You may recall (and by skipping back a few posts actually read - oh heck here it is) that I shared the news of the latest Govt. eco/carbon/climate website to consume more funds to 'help' 'us' go greener, namely ActonCo2 (as opposed to EalingCo2...har-har. They may titter in West London).
Well, possibly thanks to the most concerted PR campaign by every Govt. PR agency (I must have had thirty emails) in the land, and the cooperation of the likes of me, it seems that it doesn't work after 5pm (no civil service jokes, please).
Having pointed a few of you at it, I had a flood (well, two) of emails to say that it says 'come back later'. And, checking myself, this seems to be the case.
Now the explanation is that it's because it's so popular. And I would wish for such a 'happy problem'.
Or, just maybe, it's because all the complicated guff I mentioned in my quick review (slow review not possible as there is not access for now) means that it's all tied up dealing with the few folk who can get through. And having failed, and once the PR has worn off, how many will go back?
Expensive. Useless. And looks a lot better than it delivers. Ring any bells?
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Just found this article in Public Technology.Net (http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9856)
Taken from the article:-
"Defra has developed the calculator, in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust and with help from other Government departments and organisations, including The Climate Group. Specialist IT firms EHS Brann and d::gen network limited carried out the technical work, with input from the Central Office of Information. Experts from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and AEA were also closely involved. With the support of the Government, the software developers d::gen network limited will be licensing the underlying software and algorithms that calculate the CO2 footprint under "open licenses" such as the GNU General Public License, Creative Commons or equivalents."
With so many involved, the cost of putting this together must have been horrendous. The result is not surprising really ...... a camel (i.e. a horse as designed by a totally disjointed committee).
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