electronic isolation

[cellio]

Starting tomorrow, I will not be able to access personal email at work. Many web sites are blocked (including all known to offer email); LJ access is unknown. You should assume delays in responding to, or even seeing, email, interesting web sites, national news... If you have my cell-phone number, you can use that to reach me if it's time-sensitive. If you think you should have my cell-phone number and you don't, send me email (which will, err, be delayed, so don't wait until you need it).

Comments

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

:(

That is above and beyond not-cool. I guess Viz has changed quite a lot since they were bought.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Annoying! A few months ago, they blocked a million things here, but then a couple weeks later, I suddenly had access to every site again. IT never announced why they dropped the firewall, and I certainly wasn't about to ask. Must have interfered with something command wanted.

Another reason for a laptop

[astroprisoner.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same situation at work. All personal e-mail sites are blocked, although LJ access is allowed. (Their concern is incoming e-mail attachments.) Many many many sites are firewalled as well, I'd venture to say that about half the things I click on here on LJ end up returning the "Access Denied" screen.

I'm lucky, though. In addition to my desktop, I was issued a laptop for travel. The laptop has a modem, and I can dial in through my office phone. Thus one more reason for having a laptop.

Corporate overlorditis

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

How about smoke signals? Have they covered the windows?