Prank message on website an 'oversight'

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Thanks for the laugh...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080108004412486C146230

Struggling to find a government website?

January 08 2008 at 07:21AM

By Louise Flanagan

Can't find an Eastern Cape government webpage? It could be on holiday, on strike or even promoted to vice-president.

A routine error message on the department of health's website offers some rather less-than-routine excuses for webpages that can't be found.

"Sorry … but the page you are looking for cannot be found," starts the error message.

Reasons it offers for this include:

# "The page is on holiday and will be out of the office until next week or when it feels like coming back."

# "The page was considered redundant and was given a raise, so it now works even less."




# "The page performed an illegal operation and was promoted to vice-president."

# "The page was on strike. We are busy negotiating with the unions now for better wages so it can come online."

# "The page is running late. This could be because the taxis need to collect at least another 404 passengers."

# "The page is sleeping. After all, this is African time we are talking about."

The Eastern Cape department of health said on Monday the website had not been hacked.
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I tried to check on the site now, but they've replaced the more human error message with a general server error. :(
 
stoke said:
Bleugh ... no good deed goes unpunished
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ROFL @ stoke.

There is an article on the front page of the Star this morning about the 404 page"

Health Dept in a huff over website prank
"No good deed goes unpunished"
That's the comment form an internet blogger after the Eastern Cape Dept of Health removed an offbeat error message form its website.
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Doesn't seem to be on iol.co.za yet.
 
"This was the case with the error message, and unfortunately it was not deleted when the site was handed over to the department in 2006."
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handed over in 2006, so this has been online for more as a year, and nobody from the department noticed. Guess they took a long holiday
 
heh, don't you just love using creative debug messages while doing development on a boring project?
 
The page is on holiday and will be out of the office until next week or when it feels like coming back;

1. The page was considered redundant and was given a raise so it now works even less;

2. The page performed an illegal operation and was promoted to vice-president;

3. The page was on strike. We are busy negotiating with the unions now for better wages so it can come online;

4. The page is running late. This could be because the taxis need to collect at least another 404 passengers, and

5. The page is sleeping. After all, this is African time we are talking about.
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hehe
 
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