London Olympics bans Food, Drinks and more in the name of Anti Terrorism.

Everybody can see through this. Its the only way the Olympics Committee can promise greater profits for their sponsors.

However the following items are banned yo be brought into the Olympics Village:

Food

Drink

Mobile Phones

Umbrellas

Branded Caps

Branded Tops.

Food and Drink is just shameless and the Olympics Committee should be ashamed. However EU law does require free water is distributed so lets see if this is done.

I bet that the cost of a bottle of water within the Olympic Village will be atleast £2.

The pursuit of profit knows no bounds when it comes to the biggest con - Olympics.

Thank God the con only comes once every 4 years.

Testing, testing, testing... Visa card glitch for the 2012 Olympics website.

Apparently the website provider for the worlds most important website during this time did not test correctly with the payment provider Visa that all cards which expire in 4 months from the 17th of March (July 2011) would be rejected as a form of payment.

All such customers need to use offline payment by walking into a Lloyd's bank branch and pay by cheque or cash and select the games they wish to see.

Remember as Visa is the official payment provider you can only use Visa cards for paying for tickets and buying anything in the Olympics Village during the games.

Who does not for see such a situation - a very bad Testing strategy.

This is yet another fail after the Olympics Omega 500 day countdown clock stopping in under 24 hours.

I am amazed that large programmes such as the Olympics still cut corners on something like testing.

There is no replacement for a very good Testing strategy and an equally good testing team.

I just hope the Olympics go off without a hitch, but atleast after 2 public fails the Olympics Programme should have learnt something and they do have 499 days left still.

London Olympics Countdown clock stops.

This is why you must think about Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in everything you do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12749912

The clock unveiled less than 24 hours ago is now stuck. Its a public statement of the London Olympics Committee - which clearly says we will fail.


The best part is that this is a digital count down clock. I remeber that as a 7 year old i used to build IC555 timer circuits which took less than 10 minutes to put together. Although this does not use an IC555 as things have moved on, how hard could it have been to have parallel timer circuits, ready to take over when one circuit went down?

I am simply surprised why the contractor is not already on site, rather than letting this become a news field day. I guess its due to a lack of proper DR process and poor SLA, they probably thought nothing could go wrong with a clock.

Lets hope the actual games have more luck and that the Olympics committee does have proper Business Continuity plans in place.

UPDATE: The OMEGA Clock is now working, but this is a PR Disaster for Omega.

UPDATE: The clock is NOW undergoing thorough testing.... after the faileur. Very poor Programme Management and Testing Strategy by the Olymics Porgramme.

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