I have another blog inside Sun, entitled "Medieval Theme Park" where I post other pseudo-random thoughts, but the name deserves an explanation.
So why "Medieval Theme Park?" The phrase came from a review meeting with a customer CIO. It was a fun meeting, lots of ideas, and he was talking about mutual friends in East Anglia, North of London. As soon as you cross the border into Suffolk (he said) it's like entering a medieval theme park, with windmills and tractors. Living (as I do) next door to a windmill in Darkest Suffolk, with tractors, horses and steam engines often trundling past the window, the name stuck.
It's just a fun name, but there is a hidden message there about how the digital divide is not just a geographical one, I'll expand on that later.
Category: Personal
http://news.bbc.co.uk also has an interesting story here about how approximately 11.2 million UK homes are not expected to get an Internet connection anytime soon.
In some parts of the country, "medieval theme park" may not be far off-base, from a communications perspective.
Posted by Dave Walker on October 31, 2006 at 03:17 PM GMT #