The Rijksmuseum offers a computer desktop widget that is supposed to display a new picture from the museum’s art collection every day.It’s a brilliant idea, and it’s been delivering a new piece of art to my desktop since last March. That is, until it stopped working a week ago. Since then, it’s just sat there, complaining that it can’t connect to the museum. I’ve sent a couple of emails to the Rijksmuseum alerting them to the problem, but so far, I’ve had neither an answer or even an acknowledgement. I’m not impressed.
Update 30 Jan 2008: dunno what has changed, but the gadget started working again this morning… Normal service appears to have been resumed…
Update 1 Feb 2008: I see that Peter Gorgels, who works at the Rijksmuseum has commented on this entry to say that, indeed, the servers at the museum were configured wrongly. The probem has been fixed. Thanks for letting me know, Peter.
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