According to a source close to the Prime Minister, Parliamentary staffers today received this missive from the Orwellian-sounding Parliamentary Communications Directorate - which is also known as the Ministry of Information (retrieval).
—–Original Message—–
From: PCD Customer Services
Sent: 08 December 2005 11:29
Subject: Loss of S Drive and Citrix Service - UPDATE
Importance: High
Loss of S Drive and Citrix Service - Update
The loss of shared drives (S Drive) (House of Commons Members and their staff, constituency drive) has now been restored. This process took longer to complete than first anticipated. To access your S: Drive please log off and log back on to your computer.
An email following this one will outline the current status of the ongoing Citrix issues.
We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
PCD Customer Services
Parliamentary Communications Directorate
Houses of Parliament
T. 020 7219 2001
F. 020 7219 6356
Of course, constituency staff all receive their email service through the citrix server. I’m sure someone will discover the logical hurdle in emailing people to tell them their email doesn’t work.
recessmonkey@gmail.com
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This is utter tosh.
All constituency based staff should be using VPN by now. CITRIX should have been shut down long ago. (But there are probably enough luddites around to need to keep it going)
Sparrow said this on December 8th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
yeah - i forgot they are mid migration. Thank you for your measured and costructive comment though.
Recess Monkey
Recess Monkey said this on December 8th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
Shouldn’t your article have begun with ‘a source who used to be close to the Prime Minister’
Slimfast said this on December 8th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
Did your source (formerly) close to the Prime Minister also come a close third (by a mere 9,000 votes) in a three way marginal in SE England?
His political influence defies belief.
9,000 votes said this on December 8th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
A source copying you an email that went to several thousand people? You must be extremely plugged in. Seriously, who would pass that on? Who gives a fukk if the email wasn’t working for a few hours. I’d even rather have that “a man in a car park told me to avoid Asda at the weekend” email *again*. Not that your blog has ever been spectacular, but this ’story’ is beyond mundane.
Maybe 9,000 votes, maybe not said this on December 9th, 2005 at 2:48 pm
Please forgive me for gluing open your eyelids and forcing you to read this website while holding you in an arm-lock.
Recess Monkey
Recess Monkey said this on December 9th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Waw Recess Monkey alot of people must read your site these days, after all if people who think its complete shit are reading it!
But seriously, do you have a mole in Number 10, or a very small monkey?
Dr. Freling
Bob Freling said this on December 9th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
Recess Monkey! Great site! (My name has nothing to do with a possible mole or small monkey in Downing street). How cool would that be though! A little monkey to find out all the little secrets…
How do you get all of this info though really? It’s just great.
The Mole who is Mole-like.
Mole Man said this on December 9th, 2005 at 11:40 pm