{"id":1405,"date":"2012-07-12T04:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2012-07-13T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T07:59:21","slug":"bbc-website-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/2012\/07\/12\/bbc-website-down\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC website down"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BBC's<\/a>

BBC’s error 500 image<\/p><\/div>\n

My parents always told me never to attempt to profit from the misfortune of others. Mum, Dad, sorry. I’m a BBC news<\/a> addict in much the way a former colleague once told me “I love red wine, but it doesn’t love me back”. I visit their site many, many times per day. Spelling, grammar, semantics, objectivity and morality aside, it always JustWorks\u2122. Except for this evening. I attach a couple of screenshots for posterity. I have to say – even though I did at first snigger at the BBC’s Fail Whale<\/a> – that I expect something a little more … I don’t know … artistic than MyFirstPhotoShop.gif. Maybe it’s the flames.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking at the image and thinking “scary clown<\/a>“, don’t. I have very fond childhood memories of Bubbles the Clown<\/a>. After unexpectedly long excursions into those parts of YouTube where the best-rated comments are “how did I get here?” and I can hear birds singing in the dawn outside, I find myself wishing that Zen (my ISP)<\/a> would present me with a test card at the right time.<\/p>\n

Oh look, BBC’s back online again and I haven’t finished typing. Those screenshots, before I get some clicking-mindlessly-on-links therapy:<\/p>\n

\"BBC's<\/a>

BBC’s HTTP 500 page<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not sure what I clicked on to get this 410 response<\/p><\/div>\n

Update:<\/span> Sometime later I spotted this BBC article about the outage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update Friday 13th July:<\/span> BBC is down again, just before 9am. The 410 Gone<\/a> page is from the “Text only” link at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My parents always told me never to attempt to profit from the misfortune of others. Mum, Dad, sorry. I’m a BBC news addict in much the way a former colleague once told me “I love red wine, but it doesn’t love me back”. I visit their site many, many times per day. Spelling, grammar, semantics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[107,13,41,18,57],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaktime","category-broken","tag-broken","tag-down","tag-http","tag-server","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}