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From £32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website.

OMG! The quote alone it’s worth a post like this, but £32k/day sounds like too much to be true. Unfortunately, it seems it is.

In Spain we’re used to this kind of money waste (well, may be not that much, but waste anyway). I don’t know how it starts. May be it’s just ignorance in combination with a very smart consulting firm, or may be it’s just corruption, but it’s astonishing how expensive can be maintaining a government website.

Anyway, I can see that this is wrong because I work on IT, but how many other expenses of the government are as overpriced as this one and I wouldn’t be able notice it? Scary, because sometimes nobody does.

The Birmingham City Council website doesn’t render properly in Chromium 6.0.476.0, neither does in Firefox 3.6.9.

Update: Hey! They updated it! Now it displays correctly with Firefox :).