There was loads of publicity, including the BBC, Sky News, the entire works in fact. There is of course one general rule when you go for such a "big bang" approach to a website launch. Make sure you load test the bloody thing first and get your metrics right! Right now, the site is, as we say in the business, b0rken.
Update: At least they're being honest about their failure to load test properly. You'd think the arse might tell the elbow to stop sending out press releases with "Miliband unveils CO2 calculator" as the title though.
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how much did this pile of s!*t cost us?
Tried it this morning, opted for html instead of flash, painfully slow. I never did get as far as getting my carbon total.I lost the will to live answering the 16 screens about my house when I had to answer questions about insulation and DRAFT prevention. With that sort of error I decided the whole thing was flawed!
Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /carboncalc/html/index.aspx
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
At least you got a graceful error.
Another IT success for NuLab!
Kin L
It's like wading thru treacle!
Why do they insist on doing these stupid things time after time?
Well done Dizzy for exposing yet another NuLab IT Cock up. Yet a little voice inside tells me that the other Politico parties would not do any better until Taxpayers money is not seen as easy come/ easy go.
To add to my anonymous above, I have now been told that my session has timed out.
I wonder if there is a site that will show my wasted CO2 footprint for a computer, monitor, modem, broadband connection and ISP link to a defunct internet site for at least 30 minutes.
And its a waste of money anyway, of course. Its not the global warming that'll get us. Its those africanised bees, man.
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