People being people, and academics being academics, there is often a lot of complaining about IT support – no matter where you are. But this example is one of the worst I’ve ever heard about. The US Ambassador to Kenya “ordered a commercial Internet connection installed in his embassy office bathroom so he could work there on a laptop not connected to the Department email system”

Apparently the US State Department is currently in the middle of rolling out a new, ‘modern’, desktop suite, based on Microsoft Office 2010…

The jokes just write themselves, but in the interests of taste, I’ll stop here!