Funny: wrong website blocked
We have the horrible Barracuda Filter in place on our network here at work. This isn’t the first time it has blocked one of our very own websites, but this is the first time I have remembered to take a screen capture to mark the event. Schaffs Angus Valley can’t be visited by anyone in this building, because “The Web site you are trying to access has been blocked by the Barracuda Web Filter because it is in the Spam category, access to which has been blocked by your system administrator.”
Seriously? They built the contact forms we use on these sites. Perhaps if we were granted access to Coldfusion or the ASP.net framework, we could create a better contact form. So, for the moment, it isn’t our fault that the spammers can crawl the page and auto-fill the contact us form. We’re blocking the very sites we’re responsible for allowing to send spam in the first place. Hmm…is this considered irony or just sad?
Hit the image for a close-up. Enjoy! I know I did.
10 Signs Your Girl is a Geek
1. She’s fragged more n00bs on Halo than you.
2. She laughs at your t-shirt
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3. She nods sympathetically when you rant about someone in the Usenet group who refused to RTFM.
4. Her bit torrent is neatly sorted into TV shows, Movies & Music.
5. She mourned the death of Gary Gygax.
6. She can sing The Ballad of Serenity.
7. Her library sports any number of these illustrious authors: Gary Gygax, Douglas Adams, Ayn Rand, George Orwell or J.R.R. Tolkien
8. She quotes Office Space on a bad day.
9. She’s wished you Happy Towel Day.
10. Her d20 dice is not just for D&D, it’s a fashion statement.
Interesting things I find when working
Sometimes there are a few neat bits of information come my way when I’m working on an update. While posting to the Missouri Angus Association’s membership list, I came across a really neat name for a farm. I wonder how much influence Mallory Trosper (their daughter) had in that?
Trosper, Steve & Sandy
Futurama Farms
Hamilton, MO 64644
Or how about some pun-loving Eby horses, with names like Nic It In The Bud, Boonlight Dancer and A Smart Enterprise? I think you’re fairly warned with This Chic Plays Ruf, and who wouldn’t want The Better Remedy?
While pop culture farm names are rare, sometimes the cattle names follow pop culture, like naming a bull American Idol. Sometimes they’re just downright creepy, like Lucifer’s Pride RL (I suspect this is a programmer’s joke, since the pedigree is missing).
Do You Have COWS?
Sometimes I can’t help myself. I have a tendency to learn by osmosis and I’m often not aware it’s happening until the damage is done. Call it the list of useless skills.
I see too many photos of cows on a daily basis. I can tell you if they are wet or dry, an approximate age and the difference between a donor and a heifer. No. Take my word for it- you really don’t want to ask about any of it. I also have the ability to glance at random photos of random cows and can nail the breed with 80% accuracy. Not bad for a city girl.
Aside from the bovine variety, meet a few new cows.
Everyone has a disease these days. The ones with an acronym are the worst. People seem to follow some semblance of this train of thought:
Oh, no! The doctors have an acronym for it! That must mean they say it all the time and are tired of repeating that mouthful of words. It must be serious if they are referring to it as RLS! What if I have Restless Leg Syndrome?! (Ponders.) Ooh…I wonder if they prescribe Ritalin. Maybe I do have it.
If I’m stuck with one, I pick COWS: Continuous Open Windows Syndrome. Do you ever seem to have too many windows open at once? I have a very large monitor with a high pixel resolution. Screen space should not be an issue, but it is.
There is a running joke in my office: we (the random 2 web developers) tell the visitors “It’s all about C.O.W.s.” What we really mean is “It’s all about Cranking Out the Web sites.”
