Emergency Test Signal
Week from Monday 24th April 2023 - Weekends these days are very much for WATCHING THE DETECTIVES. I save up an entire weeksworth of whodunnits and binge watch them throughout the course of Saturday and Sunday (Not much time for music or soshul meejah for me then!). That includes five or six episodes of "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS", the excellent "ASTRID: MURDER IN PARIS" and, on the lighter side, I've been playing catch-up with the first season of "SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY". The latest series of the scandi-noir "DEN SØM DRÆBER" has been slightly disappointing, but I'm determined to stick it out to see what happens. Saturday teatimes are generally spent watching re-re-re-runs of "MIDSOMER MURDERS" (comfort telly!).
After a huge, panic-inducing media build-up, the Gubnint's "EMERGENCY TEST SIGNAL" initiative turned out to be the proverbial damp squib, as with any sort of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY they try to involve themselves in. It didn't (and couldn't) work at all on my phone, as I might have guessed in advance. This also seems to be the case with numerous other folks I know on the twitters. For those who DID receive the signal (even some of those with up-to-date phones with factory defaults still in place), the 'alarm' was so feeble in volume that it wouldn't have roused the average Sunday afternoon napper anyway, let alone warn you that 'THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING AND THEY'VE ALL GOT THE PLAGUE' or whatever it's meant for...
(What it IS for, is yet another brilliant Tory scheme for spending public money and diverting it into the pockets of their rich supporters, while scaring Daily Mail readers into believing that they are doing something useful with it. They gave the contract to FUJITSU, whose buggy software, you may recall, was responsible for getting all those post office workers accused of fraud. Fujitsu have then sub-contracted the work to INFOSYS, a company in which - surprise surprise! - Mrs Richi Sunak has an involvement. So in the end, like the Test & Trace app and the PPE from the mate's pub, it was never actually expected to 'work' as such, it just provides another opportunity for some to hoover up the dosh.)
After a huge, panic-inducing media build-up, the Gubnint's "EMERGENCY TEST SIGNAL" initiative turned out to be the proverbial damp squib, as with any sort of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY they try to involve themselves in. It didn't (and couldn't) work at all on my phone, as I might have guessed in advance. This also seems to be the case with numerous other folks I know on the twitters. For those who DID receive the signal (even some of those with up-to-date phones with factory defaults still in place), the 'alarm' was so feeble in volume that it wouldn't have roused the average Sunday afternoon napper anyway, let alone warn you that 'THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING AND THEY'VE ALL GOT THE PLAGUE' or whatever it's meant for...
(What it IS for, is yet another brilliant Tory scheme for spending public money and diverting it into the pockets of their rich supporters, while scaring Daily Mail readers into believing that they are doing something useful with it. They gave the contract to FUJITSU, whose buggy software, you may recall, was responsible for getting all those post office workers accused of fraud. Fujitsu have then sub-contracted the work to INFOSYS, a company in which - surprise surprise! - Mrs Richi Sunak has an involvement. So in the end, like the Test & Trace app and the PPE from the mate's pub, it was never actually expected to 'work' as such, it just provides another opportunity for some to hoover up the dosh.)
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