Mastodawn

What a disaster the BOM website continues to be.

Simple things like daily weather observations, easily accessed on the old functional site. Resorting to use search for basic data demonstrates a lazily designed website. Laziness is one of Accenture's core competencies.

Finally searched for Redcliffe. The data is not available for months. September 2025 has the latest sensible data. October 2025 data and later is b0rken

https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/202510/html/IDCJDW4099.202510.shtml

It is easy to declare an "efficiency dividend" if you never maintain and develop anything 😖 Degrade the service then flog it off.

What is even worse, using the same search string but substituting "Redcliffe" with "Brisbane" gives no result at all, for a set of data that should be intact.

Did BOM overpay Accenture for a useless website so they can monetise OUR DATA by flogging it off to the myriad of "Weather" apps? Those apps belong in the same bin as Private Health Insurance, Accenture, and Private Schools.

Successive Federal governments over the twenty first century have underfunded our precious public institutions and infrastructure, all so a class of citizens can infested with gas guzzling status symbols and another class can more effciently siphon off OUR wealth.

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#auspol #BOM #accenture

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Alan James Thompson Mar 7

The job was completed - not to my satisfaction - probably not to the employers either - but it has been signed off now. Possibly because I had to behave like the unreasonable unprofessional psychopath to get the job done. It was necessary as the project was being set up to fail and I would have been held responsible in any case.
There were no good options left.

I will say nothing more, and I certainly wont go into identifying detail, but my faith in humanity... I don't know what that is any more

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Alan James Thompson Mar 7

I'm at a loss to know what more I could of done, given that I am the person that I am, know my limitations, made clear what I was capable of, and not capable of.

Alan James Thompson Mar 7

Approached to do some work for a client I had problems with in the past. In the contract negotiations this time, there was a single condition I demanded that was not negotiable if they wished to employ my services. Agreed verbally. Job started. Employers promptly ignored promise made to me and the situation I was attempting to work around for my own mental heath and the quality of the work played out exactly as I feared it would.

Alan James Thompson Mar 4

so... decision time... do I take the job doing the work I love, for a cause I believe in, that will provide me with a measure of economic security, but also forces me to work with a psycho who will undermine me every opportunity, sabotage my work, and make my life a living hell for the short time I'm still left alive?

Alan James Thompson Nov 10

Random Mandelbrot Nov 9

3.22500000000000009e-01 + 4.03125000000000011e-01i at zoom 5.4396695487e+01.

Alan James Thompson Oct 21

This new site is utterly wonderful!

Convict Probation system in Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94d476b2a3b446eda00f8793d7b3502e

#history #AustraliaHistory

Forgotten and threatened

Reclaiming Tasmania's probation system, 1839-53

Esri

Alan James Thompson Oct 16

Now I've found either a second or third one in Perth! #prefab #historyAU

Alan James Thompson May 9, 2025

First day back to writing after more than a month of medical distractions including two weeks of Covid 19. I'm finding maintaining concentration quite difficult. Someone is not helping.