Thursday 6 August 2009

SomerBlogging on ...

... despite Alan's precipitate departure following the change of little government?

We had kind of expected things to settle down a bit. You know? But then someone showed us this new blog.

It's one of the "Political" ones, and we would not normally want to comment, but the peculiar thing is that the Party has changed (all the previous ones were to do with the ancien régime and we suspected that some or all were fakes ...).

The other peculiar thing is that we have read through it several times and cannot figure out if it is genuine or a hoax!

As you may recall, we are always alert to the possibility of fakes ....

Any enlightenment would be welcome. On this, or indeed, any other matter!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The quote is genuine and from the Somerset Conservative web site:

http://www.somersetconservatives.org.uk/news/229/

And Alan Thurlow is reported to have visited Cornwall Unitary and told a few porkies re SAP being "fine" and that everyone is "delighted"....but then hey there is a commission at stake here.

Huxtable was Chair of the Audit & Resources committee and has supported ISiS, IBM & SWOne throughout 2007 until now.

Anonymous said...

Alan Jones working for Government now at CLG on Total Place and also claims to be an IT expert on something called Cloud Computing...?

http://www.lgcplus.com/people/buchanan-sought-revenge-on-jones/5004599.article

Anonymous said...

Jonesy claiming to be an expert in cloud computing? lol unbelievable! His experience is Somerset has been how NOT to implement a cloud system!!

Anonymous said...

http://www.somerset.gov.uk/council/board10/2009%20September%2029%20Item%206%20Southwest%20One%20Update.pdf

3.2. Since the launch of our Joint Venture Company (SWO) in 2007, it has been the responsibility of the Client Services team within the Resources Directorate to provide contract management and client liaison services to ensure:

The delivery of the initial five ‘transformation projects’ contracted from SWO are on time, within budget, and delivering the required outputs.