Believe it or not, I found the time to listen to last Wednesday’s full Council meeting at which
next year’s Council Tax was jacked up by as much as is legal.
A number of things struck me as worthy of comment but the intervening days have
faded my recollections. I seem to recall that Councillor Richard Diment made his points
in a reasonable fashion while the usual suspects were mainly interested in playing politics
The spare several hours which writing a formal report would take has eluded me,
bogged down as I have been by reinforcing the house with more copper.
Fortunately the Labour Group has
put out a Press Statement which can be a stop
gap report. It will be posted as a separate blog so as not to allow my waffling
to detract from its importance.
The recabling
was a a bit of an ordeal. Over many years, every time I redecorated a room I
installed wired network access points. 29 of them in total although only eleven
are in regular use. My mistake was not to allow POE (Power Over Ethernet) to be
a simple and easy choice.
20 years ago I did not know what POE was and in later years the price of the equipment required was a
disincentive. Making it available at selected outlets on a hard wired system
presented challenges not helped by the fact that my detailed notes and graphics
of how the cabling was originally set up had gone AWOL.
In retrospect it would have been easier to throw away an expensive switch and buy the POE version so that the power could
be switched on in software rather than my cost free but time consuming solution.
I must have been up and down stairs 100 times while sending a test signal up one
cable to see where it emerged; and again when it didn’t.
The new VOIP phones work too, after I worked out what Session Initiation
Protocol pass through was and disabled it. Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
There are two unidentified cables left over. Sooner or later I will find
something that no longer works but for now it will have to do.