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Apr. 24th, 2006 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webofevilThe entire NHS is getting a shiny new computer system. Developed by Fujitsu, rather than in one of the government's usual entirely above board and not remotely questionable deals with its most favoured companies, the system stands a chance of being adequate—although that point in its favour has to be pitted against the natural law that any computer system developed by the government is almost guaranteed to fail so cataclysmically that no profanity known to man is sufficient to describe it.
A document about this is being circulated to all NHS staff, most of whom appear to have dutifully ticked their names and passed it on without reading it. This is a shame, as it means they'll have missed, on page 2, Frequently Asked Question 10.
A document about this is being circulated to all NHS staff, most of whom appear to have dutifully ticked their names and passed it on without reading it. This is a shame, as it means they'll have missed, on page 2, Frequently Asked Question 10.
Frequently Asked Question 10: "What is a COW?"Stop sniggering at the back. As you should all know, a COW is of course a Computer On Wheels. Presumably this is to distinguish it from a Computer On Desk, Computer On Layers Of Netting, Computer *n Clinic Kitchen Surface Under Cupboard Kept Empty Recently, etc etc.
