* Posts by Martin

2 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2008

UK net registry battles coup d'etat

Martin

Nominet are crooks

For every domain name I have ever bought in the UK I have paid my ISP to register the name and then a few months later nominet has sent me an invoice for normally about 10 times what I paid - none of which I have ever paid. Nominet are running an expensive service that on one needs and they are cashing in on the confusion of DNS registration. They should be forced to payback all the money they have demained over the years.

T5 opening turns into Airplane 3.0

Martin

Baggage is complex - to say the least...

and when it all goes wrong its normally one of the following or a combination which causes gridlock and one very unhappy baggage system -

The software engineers aren't up to the job, the complexities are not fully understood, many different technologies are used and all need to interface together without any problems, the system is very complex and the staff are not fully trained by fully trained I mean not only shown how to operate the system but also how to clear problems. Add to all that the security screening, bag tracking, hardware faults, poorly labeled baggage (bags with more than a single barcode), late bags, early bags, problem bags, transfer bags, airline bag messaging - it all turns into a very big mess very quickly if just one member of staff operates the system incorrectly, gridlock (where the system stops because bags are not being cleared fast enough to the baggage piers and into ULDs) can happen very quickly.

You have to know what you are doing - its not anywhere as simple as moving bags from one place to another.