"The first journey is a bus from the south of the city, Stirchley to, Birmingham. This 3.5 mile journey takes about 20 minutes between 6am and 7am, and about 40 minutes between 8am and 9am."
That would be the school run. To test my hypothesis, I'm going to try to run the results during a school holiday in a bit.
Very pleased someone has actually done what I have often thought about (but done nothing about) while standing at the 97 bus stop in the rain early in the morning... getting the data from the departure system. I wonder how I can get my hands on a sample of the data...
Education and the health service (think buildings and land as assets for the latter) are the two remaining ones apart from something like the road system. I'm sure they will try these soon.
Didn't they already have a shot at education? That whole Academies mess. Although the master plan to make every school an "academy" [0] was shot down days after it was announced.
[0] This is a weird, UK government definition of the word. Don't think Plato.
UK, non-government public sector, very senior people still have secretaries - often described as personal assistants. The PAs handle interfacing and information flow, the senior people can get on with the thinking.
A PA is not a secretary years ago I worked on organising a large event and one of the committee member was the PA to the county fire chief.
She was awesome, at the first meeting she had worked out from previous years all the key things the other members of the committee needed to do - written all the letters and handed them to us to sign.
UK 1976 I was doing a computer science O level at the local technical college (Wednesday afternoon release from my school). There was a 19" rack modem with accoustic coupler on the front and a dial to dial the number. That was connected to a teletypewriter. We did some BASIC 'interactive' programming (the main projects used coding sheets).
The system was vulnerable to thunder storms I remember (line noise). All good fun.
I rember my first Job (based at Cranfield Uni) and we where a long way away from the Exchange - Some times you had to whistle into the acoustic coupler to get the carrier to pickup then quickly put the hand set in.
"GCHQ told Sullivan that Sidebottom "had a small but dedicated following" among its staff."
Couple of people do Sidebottom dialogues as an in-joke to the extent that it begins to annoy co-workers.
"[After random outer triangles explained] 'Right, we've cracked it during a light-hearted training exercise.'"
Took a couple of minutes as a starter in a session.
PS: I use a Playfair style grid to jumble up my pass phrases to try to make them less susceptible to rainbow table attack. Am I wasting my time?