Memories and Consequences
10 years ago today I was in the test room at my work at Ericsson Intracom based in Leicester. The dot-com bubble had long since burst and Ericsson had given up on its ambition to rule the world of 3G and was contracting back to Sweden. As a result of this it had already been announced that Ericsson Intracom would be sacrificed as part of this retrenchment. As such I wasn't exactly interested in working too hard, but the test room with its rows of ATM racks and sun work station was a good place to hide from the general gloom predictable affecting the office downstairs. I think it was in the early afternoon that John came up to the room. Had I, he asked heard about New York? No I answered. He replied that something had happened at the world trade towers. As luck had had it, Ian the IT admin had only recently showed me how to bypass the company firewalls to stream IP. As you could probably guess, with the the work force already on the chopping block, there was some serious IT abuse ...