Coventry

Had originally booked today off work, but had to go to Coventry for a conference. The company that supplies our mapping software has recently been taken over by a big American company. Who in turn was taken over by another company. So I guess this meeting was just to reassure us that everything was going to be OK in the future. Well if that was the plan it didn’t work. The big American company obviously had no idea how UK local government works. Their top bod suggested a World User Conference and asked us how many of could make the trip to Seattle. No-one raised their hand. One had to point out to him that we can’t expect the Council Tax payers to pay for such a trip. We don’t have the budget for it. A trip to Coventry is all we can afford. Although Liverpool Council people did say it would be cheaper for them to fly to Amsterdam than drive to Coventry. We left the conference early as the last bits in it were not relevant to us. I’m glad that we did leave early, Chance to have some quality time with Sue that evening.