I followed a link from screenshot website, pointing to a press released from Prime Minister Office (PMO)’s website. It’s about the bridge. Instead of getting the press release, I just got:-
Error 404 HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Entry not found in index
Ok, fine with that but what’s really disturbed me is the URL pointing to the said press release:-
http://www.pmo.gov.my/WebNotesApp/PMMain.nsf/hv_PMKiniSemasaNew/F228976DEDA2E12D4825714E00233CB6
Given such an ugly, imposibble to dechiphered URL, how should I know that it was a correct URL. Maybe the authored mistakenly type the URL but how come I would know that ??? PMO website is supposed to provide public services where us, the general public can easily navigate the website to get the information that we want. Why the URL can’t be as simple as:-
http://www.pmo.gov.my/press/1567161
or even better, provide an alias to that permanent URI such as:-
http://www.pmo.gov.my/press/2006/04/bridge-what-ever
Drupal can do that easily, how come PMO website can’t do that ? Exposing your site implementation details as in http://www.pmo.gov.my/WebNotesApp/PMMain.nsf/ may look cools in year 2000 but we are now in 2006 where we don’t even care whether your site are running the cool java, the famous php or the beauty Rails. Just give me that damn information.
