COCKBLOCKED BY THE FIREWALL
Considering that I have nothing else to do, you’d think that with my computer in front of me, I’d have all the entertainment possibilities I could need.
You’d be wrong.
Thanks to a near-Draconian firewall and a slow-as-shit network, it’s like pulling teeth to get any work done. Of course, by “work,” I don’t mean things C. would want me to do. I mean things that I want to do - freelance articles, keeping up with what’s on the interwebs, and general online dabblings. I can’t reach Gmail, I can’t read certain websites, and the computer is so damn pokey, it even takes a full 30 seconds to load a page just so I can post to this site. And YouTube - forget about it. A single video takes all day.
The sites that are blocked by the firewall seem pretty random. Kotaku is out, but Gizmodo is OK. I can’t view any Sugar sites, but I’m free to browse Radar and Gawker, even though they’re full of ”non-business related content.”
Of course, I’m not trying to search for kiddie porn or bomb-making tips. I just want to keep abreast about important Britney news, and work on trying to get the hell out of here. Luckily, the Craigslist job board is unblocked.
