Roundabouts assume everyone is a good driver and that people are generally
nice.  Don’t know if you notice as much as I do, but drivers these days are
not as nice as they used to be.  Plus, cell phone usage while driving makes
people stupid.

 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: FontZilla

 

North Americans on the whole have problems knowing what to do with
roundabouts.  We've just started implementing them in Winnipeg and they've
gotten quote a lot of complaints.  lack of educamation.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Matthew B Ames <[email protected]>
wrote:

Haha,  nice one.  Good job it was not my local council doing that.  Instead
we are having all our roundabouts removed and replaced with crossroads and
traffic lights installed – all to help with traffic flow for the sailing
events for the Olympics (2012)… apparently.

 

Rather than using a 14pt font, I would recommend the council buy everyone
larger monitors instead J

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 22 June 2011 15:34


To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: FontZilla

 

Not in the slightest. I am long-sighted, and I can read the guy across the
room's emails just fine from my desk.

However - to put this in perspective, here is another thing this council
have done recently...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13873091

On 22 June 2011 15:30, Sean Rector <[email protected]> wrote:

I’m laughing my a$$ off at this.  14-point?  You have got to be kidding me!

 

Sean Rector, MCSE

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: FontZilla

 

Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work for, despite being in
the middle of the deepest cuts for two decades, have decided to use our
precious IT resources to.....enforce 14-point Arial as the Outlook font for
all users, just so that partially-sighted people can be sure they can read
our emails. Amazing. I'm pretty sure eye tests and glasses have been
available to all since 1946...yet here we go.

It gets better, though. They have also decided to change every single
publication and communication that comes out of the council to 14-point
Arial, even to the stage where council tax bills will no longer be able to
display the address correctly in the envelope window. Which means they will
have to shell out for special envelopes right across the board with bigger
windows. Great money-saving sense!

Rant off.....we all love execs as much as we love users :-)

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