@danneidle.bsky.social‬ Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't r… (View Post)

As you note, The Internet did keep working. The design allows for packets to keep flowing and route around damage. Unfortunately that does assume the packets know where to go, which in this instance … (View Post)

Could be an interesting day at work. Our on-prem data centre needs to close, and we have been in discussions with all of the Cloud providers. Serendipitously the AWS discussions ended without agreeme… (View Post)

@dhothersall.bsky.social‬ There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a help… (View Post)

Helpfully, Azure's EU West is in Amsterdam. The Dublin site, which is further West, is of course EU North... (View Post)