It’s interesting for me to try to figure out who reads these postings. Sometimes I wonder if it is simply cathartic – not a bad thing, of course.
Clearly, the internal website team at the CRTC does not read my blog. Otherwise, they would never have posted a note on their site today:
Note: Due to power interruption to the CRTC’s complex, our Internet services will be unavailable from 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 12, 2006 until 10:00 a.m. Sunday, May 14, 2006.
Not after yesterday’s commentary about The Xanga Tango. With one weekend’s power interruption, the CRTC goes to 99.5% availability – two 9’s. That’s if nothing else happens all year – and we know the chances of that!
I guess that Canada’s regulatory departments just can forget about access to the archives this weekend. Take the weekend off. Miller time. There’s nothing important happening anyway. Oh yeah, there was something I read recently about an abbreviated schedule for the VoIP reconsideration. Wait ’til you get through reading the Sunday papers. No problem.
I understand that government security regulations may stand in the way of using off-site third party hosting. Otherwise, there are a lot of carriers and hosting companies that could provide guaranteed up-times, redundant 4-barrel, overhead cam, turbo-charged, gonkulators and all that.
Maybe the CRTC and Public Works can take a look at finding a secure site, somewhere in Canada, to provide business grade hosting services that don’t need to go off the air for 42 hours at a time. By the way, the folks who can help build that for you will be speaking on Wednesday afternoon, June 14 at The Canadian Telecom Summit.
I know, it’s a shameless plug. Hey, this is my blog and it is cathartic. I told you.