- It’s just not cricket
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- Apropos of nothing
- Couldn’t put it down
- Forward planning
- The back of the bus…
- Lee Evans
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- Holiday
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22
Sep
X marks the spot
Monday, 22nd September, 2008
We run a corporate intranet at my work, and I have a script that runs every hour that goes and gets the RSS feed from the BBC news website, so that on the front page of the intranet there are up to date headlines for people to be able to read.
On Friday of last week, mid-afternoon brought this little gem from the RSS feed:
Notice the second story here, with the well thought out and beautifully structured headline. Good, innit?
I clicked on the headline to read the full article, thinking that this would just be a mistake in the RSS feed, and surely the actual article that it linked to would be ok. No, this is the BBC. In actual fact, the linked article is worse: there is at least a bit of information about what this mysterious row of x characters is supposed to refer to in the RSS feed, there is nothing on the website.
Who’s doing this? What the fuck is going on at the BBC?
