Tuesday 30 September 2008

Hoover Havoc

We've all heard stories of cleaners pulling a plug out of a socket so they can plug in the Hoover - and inadvertently closing down a computer network, a heart-lung machine, or Britain's nuclear defences or some such. Now it seems the terrible blaze that gutted the Cutty Sark was also down to a vacuum cleaner. Ban them, I say - I've never liked them, noisy brutes...

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  1. That Dyson, they said at KD he was a bloody nuisance. Those stories Nige, believable, when computer process control came into being in the late seventies the company that made Tyrozetes invested heavily. Nobody thought of locking down the keyboards when the control room was unocupied. In come the early morning cleaners "ooh, that looks dusty". Two months later the plant was back in production, with lockable keyboards.

    KD..a factory somewhere in Wiltshire.

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  2. Wait, wait -- the plot of a novel I read awhile back hinged on this. Someone was on a machine when the janitress unplugged it to run the vacuum. I think it was one of those Botswana ladies' detective agency novels, by the prolific McCall Smith.

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  3. On a hospital machine, je veux dire.

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  4. 'ere Nige, your blogs gone crook, i'm not anonymous, at least I don't think I am

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  5. Odd - you're Malty again now...

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