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John Quiggin 
Why are street lights on after 11 pm? They are not for pedestrians, there are none, motorists have their own lights, so isn’t it just a waste of ratepayers money? Is it just a hangover from the days of the very powerful Electricity Commissions?
What! Many’s the time I’ve returned to my block of flats after midnight, walking back from the station or the tram stop, only to find that that same misguided cost cutting has led the outside lights on the flats to be switched off at midnight, so making it hard to find the right keys as I stand in the alcove leading to my own door (the layout is out of line of sight of the street lights).
I am frequently out of the house until very late and I’m glad of the street lights. I got home around 1am last Friday night. Sometimes if I’m in the city I don’t get home before three. Perhaps to save even more electricity you’d like all the lights turned off in the cities as well?
I’ve done that managerialism material I threatened, those of you that don’t see it from here so easily.
re streetlights: power outage a couple of months ago in small townlet where I live. downright spooky!
re slowblog: very new to all this stuff, but something in the observation about the accessibility and inherently democratic nature of blogging debates set me thinking how all that is true but that it doesn’t really feed into any larger democratic process. without the connection with face-to-face based organizations, difficult to translate fruits of rich debate into equally nourishing public policy. so then thought: community focus groups meeting regularly and using net sites to record outcomes. then thought: transformation of existing Union structures such that they allocate resources to setup & run such local groups – say, shifting Union focus to communitybased action – ie Community Union. given the growing weakness of the industry based Union membership, plus the increasing casualisation of work – a change of emphasis would make sense whilst retaining the tradional value sets of ‘equity’ and a ‘fairgo’ for the ordinary ‘worker’.
I thought the professors mug shot, links, etc had disappeared for good, from the RH column where it has usually been when I open his blog. The empty column is still there, but the afore-mentioned is all now at the bottom, so I discovered. I did do a MS Windows update and this may have caused it. Is this the way the Prof’s blog is now or should I adjust some Settings (Windows2000 Prof.) to return the profs head to it’s more convenient position?
Observa,
Whatever is causing the displacement of the professor’s whiskers and links on your screen is afflicting me as well. I hope he remedies it soon as I am missing his leonine presence across the desk.
Not leonine, rodent, with those front teeth just poking out under the upper fuzz. And I’ve lost all that sidebar stuff too (it never did show on my obsolete home system, though).
I’ve shrunk the picture a bit and put a break before the following text. This ought to work on any monitor big enough to display this comments box. Tell me if its still not functioning.
John,
The whiskers appear in my Iternet Explorer as long as the history/favourites window is narrow enough. Unfortunately I can’t say whether that was the case before your last intervention as I didn’t try narrowing the window before.
Incidentally, since this Monday Message Board is still alive, your readers may be interested to know – you yourself already knew it for sure – what Adam Smith really meant. From a History of Economic Thought exam paper I read today:
“…[the invisible hand] involves the idea that government intervention should act like an invisible hand which steps in every now and then to help the economy.”
John,
No I still have the problem, both on a Windows98 2nd Ed and on Windows2000 Prof. computers. I have done a Windows update on both recently. As well (if there are any tech. wizards out there) I often get the Windows98 computer failing to show the latest entry/entries in random blogsites. Sometimes this can be overcome by accessing the site via another blogsite’s link. All very confusing. Perhaps this problem failing to occur with Windows2000 is an indication that older versions are becoming problematic. Sounds like more dollars to Bill for XP Pro fairly soon.