You wouldn't read about it! My blog has been blocked by netsweeper!
You see, because the school's network is somewhat ordinary (after all, they are all only PC's), I regularly bring my mac in to school. It's handy to have 2 computers on at once, 1 to check emails and do internet type stuff, all work related, of course, and the other to type up instrumental waiting lists and timetables and easiteach lesson flipcharts and the like.
Anyway, it was break time, and one of the peri's was interested in my summer travels, so I went to pull up my blog to show some pics. Suddenly, the following message appeared:
What?! Hate speech? Gambling? I mean, I can allow 'Entertainment' - I would hope that maybe someone might find my ramblings a little entertaining, but the other stuff? Where in my blog do you find hate speech?
And then, I logged on again a few days later - forgetting I've been blocked - and saw this one:
Substance abuse? You've got to be kidding me, right?
Mind you, the school's net nanny programme is pretty random in its blocking of things. Its quite frustrating sometimes. Like, I'm a music teacher, so of course sometimes I need to download lyrics for songs for the kids and so on - and pretty much well all websites with the word 'lyrics' in it somewhere are blocked. It's crazy. And you can forget about youtube - even though there is a wealth of good stuff on there, useful for teaching. It's a joke.
And now kmuki.com, too, has fallen foul of netsweeper... what a sad, sad day this is...
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