Somehow it comforts me, if a package is delayed, to at least know it has been sitting ignored in a dusty corner of a warehouse in Oakland, Calif.
The completion of Masdar has been delayed to at least 2025, held up not only by the financial crisis but by a lack of businesses and people who want to move there.
Well, the latter just got a little longer: The launch of the Webb, expected previously in mid-2019 (and before that in October 2018), has been delayed to at least May of 2020.
That would mean negotiations being delayed to March at the earliest, pushing back the date for Mr Cameron's promised referendum on EU membership.
A separate planning decision on a fracking site in North Yorkshire, at Kirby Misperton, was expected this month by the county council but has been delayed to March at the earliest.
One is that the next version of Windows, called Longhorn, has been delayed to 2006 at the earliest, in part by Microsoft's realisation that it has to tighten up security a lot more.
Given the legal backdrop, it may not be entirely coincidental that shortly before the plans were published the decision on a third runway at Heathrow was delayed to enable a further look at air pollution and other environmental concerns.
The biggest potential foreign rivals have reportedly been delayed to allow a clearer run at the box office.
But the project had to be delayed for at least three years due to some technical problems [7].
Initially due to open in 2012, it is now said to be delayed until at least 2016.
