Wired News on Backhoe Troubles

Tue Oct 20 01:20:03 UTC 1998

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15645.html

Back, Back! Dreaded Hoe
by Chris Oakes , Wired News
4:00 a.m. 19.Oct.98.PDT

Participants in the North American Network Operators Group email
discussion list -- the primary shop talk forum for telecom and ISP
engineers -- have been bandying about ideas for a new T-shirt. 

One prototype features the black profile of a backhoe, the staple machine
of construction crews everywhere. A massive shovel hangs off an insect-like
arm, suspended above four giant tires. It's not the image you'd expect for
folks who deal in circuits, switches, and packet flow. But there's
something else: The backhoe is positioned within the crosshairs of a firing
device. 

Do we have a problem with backhoes here? 

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James Glave, News Editor, Wired News, http://www.wired.com  (415) 276-8430