ARGH

I have decided that people in B'ham are somehow genetically incapable of keeping up-to-date websites. The number of 404 links I'm finding is utterly unacceptable.

I suspect that, in the case of the university, part of the problem is that each department does its own site, instead of having a campus-wide webmastering staff. So the CS dept. gets a great site, while the DSS dept. has a shitty one.

But the local transit folks? Have no excuse. It's one of the ugliest, least user-friendly professional sites I've ever seen. Whoever's maintaining it needs to be bitchslapped.

Unfortunately, most of the people I've talked to about this just shrug and act as if it's unimportant. All the fucking hippies around probably would be happiest with laptops made of bark and twigs. The concept that someone might actually rely on online information is alien to them. Gee, why doncha just hop on your refurbished bike and head down to the local sustainably-grown coffee shop and ask the owner what you need to know?

My frustration with this is compounded, of course, by finding out today that the stupid rule about no online sources, evar, is not only still around, but has been expanded.

The reason? "It's lazy."

( *bangs head* )