Not-phorm

[Ian Batten]

Some interesting stuff on the phorm website.  Firstly, the logos of  
BT, CPW and VM have been removed from the front page: it still in the  
text quotes them as partners (which covers a multitude of  
possibilities) but there's no co-branding.  That might just be to save  
a smidgeon of bandwidth, but I wonder...

Secondly, there's a raft of videos of the CEO `answering' questions.   
It's hard to tell if he's deliberately misunderstanding peoples'  
concerns or just isn't very imaginative, but it's presumably intended  
to look honest and direct.  Those of us over thirty will perhaps  
remember assorted Tories stood in school halls on the 1st of May 1997,  
not quite sure of what had happened to them: it's all a bit like  
that.   I suspect those somewhat older than me will start muttering  
about dogs called Checkers [1].  It's all pretty strained, anyway.

Over in the BT support forums/fora, the BT spokesman has taken his  
ball home and hasn't been heard from since Friday's announcement that  
all previous statements on the topic of the trial last summer were, to  
quote Ron Ziegler [2], inoperative.   People there are quite in quite  
a stew.

And the No 10 petition is getting towards 7000, too.

ian


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler