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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

i don't think you ready for this jelly

At work, access to certain (seemingly random) sites is blocked. One of these sites is flickr. I haven't had a good reason to request a waiver for access to it until recently. It has been showing up in more and more articles with reference to its good interaction design, some great user features, etc.

I requested access to it for our group, and my request is denied on the grounds that flickr is a "web storage system". It would require signatures from much higher up to get this waiver. Really what they need to know is if porn is stored there, so I'm supposed to look from home.

A week or so goes by and I keep forgetting to look from home. I'm discussing this with one of my friends at work, and how I can't forget to look that night.

"If I don't come back for a couple of days, you'll know ... we ain't getting flickr at work."

3 Comments:

Blogger particleman said...

your undisclosed location of employment is running rampand with fucking idiots.

well, it was when i was there too, but whatever.

did i tell you about when i was blocked from Lessig's blog? yeah. that was whack. me and skorloff had a field day on that one.

yay! ashley has a blog! mazal tov.

6:32 AM, April 06, 2005

 
Anonymous Aaron said...

Google's URL redirector was also recently blocked.

6:41 AM, April 06, 2005

 
Blogger particleman said...

add that to the list of idiotic things they've blocked.

7:01 PM, April 07, 2005

 

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