Ironically, the name of the New Orleans City Website. I believe it’s a pun. See, somehow, the Mayor’s Office of Technology (techtards) have designed a site that accurately duplicates the frustration and fury of going to a government office in Orleans Parish and talking to someone who has no idea who they are, what their job is, and is indignantly hostile toward you for showing up expecting service; all with out leaving your home. It’s like a big, Virtual fuck you. Part of the beauty of the site is it’s slowness. I once accused the department of transportation of single-handedly bringing valium to popularity in the work place. Being at any local government office forces the question ‘who drives these people to work?’ into your mind against your will. The website has compensated for that by making it so you can only use Microsoft Internet Explorer - so those of you that clicked that link and are still waiting for it to load: it won’t. Actually it will load every 32nd attempt made using a non IE browser - just to keep things irrational - but after loading, none of the links work so it’s really just a picture at that point.

Which is really what the local government is right now. It’s really like a gun carved out of a potato, it might look like a gun, kinda, but it isn’t going to do a damn thing except turn all rotten and smelly if left alone for long enough. Although, if you want to pay a parking ticket or any one of the many taxes, you can do that online. It will be somewhat frustrating, but it’ll get done. And you know how this whole little rant started? I just wanted to fill out my homestead exemption form online. That’s all. I’ve been told you can do it online. I wrongly assumed it can be done online. Maybe it can and I just couldn’t find the right link. I dunno, and I don’t really care.

Congratulations to the Mayor’s Office of Technology for creating a representation of the mayors office that truly reflects reality. It doesn’t work, half the time you can’t find anything, the other half the time, what you find isn’t what you need, some pages simply aren’t found, when you move from one pitifully done department page to another the entire look and feel changes, and you’ve apparently written the site to only work with the worst, most frustrating browser ever created so even if your site did work, it would still be a piece of shit because the browser necessary to see it is a piece of shit. Greg should give you all raises for so accurately modeling the mayors office online.

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