NonSense
It has occurred to me that were I to meet the guy responsible for WebSense, it would probably require great restraint to quell the overwhelming urge punch him on behalf of so many people. With a product like that, he's probably a real jerk.
I just wanted to see pictures of my kid, man.
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What is websense?
Websense is the all-knowing filtering program used by the DOD that will let guys search for photos of scantily-clad models for their desktop but won't let me see family photos, and blocks MySpace on computers sent out to isolated outposts specifically for the purpose of serving as morale and recreation computers.
Sorry for posting this as a comment, but I wasn't able to find an email address for either you or your wife. I realize your situation makes it unlikely that you'll be able to attend...but I wanted to get you the information anyway.
I'm writing because a committee is planning a multi-year Humanities/ALP Reunion (and Retirement Party for Sue Hein), and I'm helping to locate people from various classes at Park Center and Maple Grove.
If you are interested in being kept in the loop on the reunion or any tributes done for Sue (submission of favorite stories, words of thanks/congratulations), please submit your contact information through our website: http://www.humanities-alp.com
We also ask for your help in forwarding the website link to any ALP alums for which you are still in contact.
Tara McLeod (Cesaretti) PC '93
How/why in the world would it filter out family photos? That's not ok.
Though I must say, I'm not opposed to scantily-clad models...
There are pics of Josh's birthday, although not a great many, on our shutterfly site - www.hartmanmcmennamin.shutterfly.com
Sometimes Brian can get it to load - Good luck-
Kel
WebSense blocks sites based on URLs and the categories that known sites have been placed in. Hotmail is often blocked, as is the aforementioned MySpace (yet ESPN.com is usually available. Hmm). Every once in a while I'll go digging for a solution to a web design problem and run into sites blocked for some reason or another.
The idea behind it is almost reasonable, but the execution leaves a LOT to be desired. It all comes from the "we can't trust our employees to be productive all day long, so we're going to block all sorts of potentially time-consuming websites to *make* them be productive, detriment to morale be damned" train of thought. It's stupid, that's what it is.
I even had to specifically request that a legit photo-sharing site (smugmug.com) be allowed through our filter so we could use it for a project we were developing. It turns out that there was a section of the site dedicated to extending and tweaking the photo sharing APIs (ignore the overwhelming geek speak) that went by the name of "hacks" and hacks is apparently a dangerous word that I needed to be protected from. D'oh.
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