Outage page – 503 Service not available

I don’t wish ill of anyone but it is somewhat comforting to know that even the BBC has technical difficulties once in a while. Today’s daily diet of BBC information was interrupted by this.

BBC Outage page on April 12th 2010

BBC Outage page 503 error

I particularly like the throw back to the clown doll, featured for over three decades, on the BBC’s famous TV test card (seen below). Nice.

BBC's famous test card