June 28, 2007
No Stock Du Jour But Some Random Observations
The power is out for 18 hours in my cellblock, so I’m unable to look at the market. Should be back up to speed tomorrow.
The office where I volunteer a few hours a day has installed a nifty new web-blocking system (WebSense Enterprise?) in a vain attempt to keep the worker bees focused on their non-tasks. This means Bloglines is now blocked. Google isn’t blocked though (yet?) so I’m going to have to export my feed subscriptions over to Google Reader, what a pain.
A door closes, a window opens….
UPDATE: 2007.07.02 — They’ve started blocking del.icio.us which seriously sucks because I can’t save stuff I come across which I plan to read later.
UPDATE: 2007.07.09 — They’ve unblocked del.icio.us for whatever reason; praise the WebSense admin gods!
UPDATE: 2007.08.20 — The Websense Enterprise software has been disabled firm-wide. Not sure if this is termporary or not, but management had to recognize that hundreds (thousands?) of work hours were being spent on finding ways to get around the blocking software.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Ouch, yesterday was a good trend day to trade.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:23 am
This company should have saved their money, if someone doesn’t want to work they’ll find other sites to surf or other stuff to do.
But look at the bright side, finally you’ll be switching to using a proper feed reader ;-) I bet you won’t go back..
June 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Eyal: I’ve tried Google Reader before and still prefer Bloglines; I’m old school.
I agree the WebSense blocking software is a bad idea, a real morale killer. If they want a full scale rebellion, they should block MSN chat sometime.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Brian: I can see by reviewing stuff that it was a very strong day, particularly after 2 PM (ding ding ding!) when some serious buying kicked in.