it's flakey.  now it's not working again.  but it's not BTCPrice's problem.  it's an issue with Mt. Gox.  I looked at the code and it uses this url for its data: https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker and when I call it by hand I get diddley back.  not sure what's up with Mt. Gox but I do see it's using the v1 api call and should probably be upgraded to use v2.  v2 seems to work whereas v1 doesn't