Web Experts Not Always to Blame. Sometimes it's God.

[tzikeh]

While putting up our Wild Chicago website for the weekend show, I discover one of the links provided by the content producer doesn't work. My knee-jerk reaction is, of course, "%(#&@ Web Experts". So, thinking I have to do their job for them again, I figure I'll find out what the right web address is. Web searches bring me nothing but two pages with links to the same, non-existent dns. I think, they must have changed recently - and I am slightly less pissed at the Web Experts. I mean, anyone can get outdated information. They should have checked it, but okay.

So I phone them up.

"Hi, I can't get to your website; do I have the wrong URL?"

"Oh, dude, hey, no - the castle got hit by lightning last night, you know? So, all of the computers in the castle are down right now."

That's not a sentence you often hear.

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

*blink* Castle?

-J

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

From the press release:

Meyer's Castle is 1 of 7 certified castles located in the United States
and only 30 minutes from downtown Chicago.

I have no idea what it is. I just put up the information.

[heresluck]

That's not a sentence you often hear.

Making it all the more delightful when one does hear it. I have a feeling I'll be chuckling about this for hours, and I needed a good chuckle. Thank you. *g*

But...but...

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Castles don't have phone lines!!!

(Yeah, OK, I should be shot. I know better, but I couldn't resist. I'll just go over here and do some penance work, now.)

[prillalar]

As a web expert, I feel you should know that it's always God's fault, never mine. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Heh - actually "Web Experts" refers to some fun I've had at work in recent months, which you can read about here and here.