I have today found what is more than likely the actual cause of the Ooops that KSmiley had reported. Turns out that if the Inspirational Quote API at Zenquotes is not working that caused the entire dashboard to generate an Ooops error.

The rest of the site was unaffected as the Oops was only on the Dashboard, but of course since that's the place everyone starts from when they're logged in it would be quite annoying.

The quote API has possibly been a little bit flakey over the last week or so and I haven't been able to catch it doing it, and now it's gone down completely and as a result the error was more easily found.

I have uploaded a patch this morning which will now generate just a boring response for those times when the more fun Inspirational Quote is unavailable. If the API does not return (and it may not, it is a free API) then I'll update the code for alternatives.

Sorry for the inconvenience!