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So for good reasons today we went looking for resources and general info on the creative industries in Northern Ireland. It's for a project that may start to take shape in the New Year and a wee bit of research could be necessary to make sure it's actually needed.

Any way I thought a good port of call might be the NI Business Info portal at www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk so I hopped on over, typed 'creative industries' into the search box and got the following:

Your search for creative industries returned 147 guidance pages, 24 support/subsidy schemes, 7 publications, 1 form, 71 pages from our partner sites. Good stuff, I'll find a lot here I thought.

And then I clicked on the top result which resulted in FAIL. Check it out at www.culture.gov.uk/about_us/creativeindustries/

I thought that the sparse 404 page might have as much resonance with others as it did with me given the year I've had. I'm not gloating, I know that large sites are difficult to maintain. There is just a certain pathos to it. Maybe you agree?