Washington DC Clunkers
August 25, 2009
I found the Washington Post’s story “’Clunkers’ Deals Disrupted by Online Malfunction, Sellers Say” quite suggestive. I read the article after attending a meeting in Washington DC. The meeting was about an information system that did not work. I cannot reveal the government entity nor the specifics of the problem, but the word “clunker” may be apt. The Post’s angle in this story was that the online system did not work very well. With our Orange line ride sucking up 90 minutes from West Falls Church to DuPont Circle, “clunker” may become a synonym for much in the nation’s nerve center. The reason for slow trains? A computer glitch. Ah, computers, not people. To close, a happy quack to the DCist.com for this example of another Washington, DC clunker:
Stephen Arnold, August 25, 2009
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