29 June (Part 2) - Dirty pictures, corrupted images and a useless front
There has been an unusually large number of emails over the past week or two and they haven't all been
answered. Sorry about that, too much time spent waiting for trains that do not arrive!
Some messages have been mischievous; a toned down version of
one might be “will Craske’s Arthouse cinema proposed for Sidcup
be showing risqué stuff?” Not such a silly question perhaps, there is lots of evidence that suggests Cabinet Member Peter Craske knows quite
a lot about that sort of stuff. When the Prime
Minister’s name was confused with Miss Busty of Beckenham,
Councillor Craske knew all about that particular lady.
It was pleasing to note that everyone who commented on
the image display problem
mentioned on Wednesday said they were not seeing it. All was well. One of the
three who alerted me to a possible problem said that some days it was not there
and when it was different images were affected.
As already reported the code to achieve the correct result is so simple that
it’s near impossible to enter incorrectly and if it was the effect would not be
text over image. It is possible to stack the priority of formatting
instructions, I can’t see how it would make any difference but I will make the
relevant instruction highest priority. Belt and braces.
One correspondent asks the question I asked myself six weeks ago although
the colourful language is entirely his…
Any ideas why the Fat Controller has ditched her best buddy from her Cabinet?
Could it be because even she has now realised that all the Officers did the hard work and
Linda was just a useless front person who offered nothing else of substance?
Councillor Linda Bailey was not a star performer at Cabinet meetings, all she
usually did was repeat the words of her colleagues but there can be little doubt
that her Growth and Regeneration Department did a good job winning the support
of both political parties if not universal praise from the population at large.
I had assumed Councilor Bailey was simply not much of a public speaker but worked effectively
behind the scenes. Perhaps I am far too generous. We must all hope that her
Cabinet successor Louis French and the able Assistant Chief Executive together
do an even better job. Maybe if Teresa O’Neill has “ditched her best buddy”
perhaps she would consider ditching the ineffective Chief Executive in favour of her much superior deputy.
Note: the term Fat Controller is a reference to the Council
Leader known to be used by several Councillors. Their emails to me offer proof.