Firewalled
Now, I am all for Internet security, safety and protecting one’s data from the harmful and hurtful gaze of others. But this corporate firewall business is really starting to get me down.
I was fine with it when they took away access to Hotmail and Yahoo!Mail. Then they killed my access to Charter’s Webmail, but no worries, I could still access webmail directly through my site. Then the bastards went and got smart on my, killing access to any URL with the term “mail” in it. Even Gmail.
Dude. All I want is a little mail. A little mail all to myself, unobserved by the corporate eye, personal, as private as is possible. But, no.
So, I adjusted. What else could I do? It makes sense - they need to protect us all from those within our ranks who might deploy viruses into our carefully protected domain - and that would not be good for anyone. So, I’m ok with it.
Now I find that I cannot access web sites that have anything to do with Geocities. Probably a good reason for that, too, but it is seriously cramping my day. Our adult league soccer schedule has been posted to this site, and I’ll have to wait until I get home to find out the info.
Hey - now I can’t get to Flickr, either! Oye.
