h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*brings in a big cake decorated with whipped cream and fresh s and a magnum bottle of Pommac (non-alcoholic made from various fruits aged in oak barrels)*

Happy birthday to absent friends Irv and One-eye! Oh, and h2g2 of course!

Woohoo! Happy Birthday!

Is there a bbq round here somewhere? We really should have and and stuff.

Just to let you know I'm posting from work and I'm unable to read the last LED because it has exceeded the tolerance of banned words. Tsk tsk, Ben. I know it was you!

say what? your software actually filters? yick. how do kids actually find enough websites to cop anything?!

As long as it doesn't mention that 3 letter word beginning with *s* that Ben used, then I'm sure they'll have no problem.

But you mean kids occasionally want to look at other websites Maybe I'm just an odd kid.

that 3 letter word beginning with *s*sod . was she talking about gardening then,? flower show seasons getting geared up now! I think clod much better word for soil, or dirt

so it's impossible to do a paper on sex differences in the workplace?


(As you can tell, I'm not a fan)

ltp, you own post #894 was also the problem. I'm at home now, so I can read it and Ben's reply too.

MR, not impossible, no, since a member of staff could ask for a specific site to be unblocked if it was relevant. I had to request this myself for my last General Studies speaker, who wanted to show livejournal. However the site had to be reblocked immediately after.

My own students study Freud and often find they can't access the information. Another section of the course relates to gender. I recently had a problem with google image search when I wanted a picture of a brain since the filter blocks "looking at pictures of body parts".

I am not sure if my pc has to be cleaner than the RL, even for my kids.

[Mog] Oh, so it filters out the s-word even if it's just saying "SEX: MALE?" Now /that's/ just fuelish.

I always forget this is a cafe and I should order something. But that and Pommac sound lovely.

The school is for aged 11 upward (maybe even the occasional very bright 10 year old). So maybe they need to filter anything that wouldn't be on kids TV at teatime.

A little story about a friend of mine who teaches English in another school. She had a class of 12 year old boys and asked one if he had a pocket dictionary she could borrow. At the end of the lesson he forgot to collect it from her. She later noticed that every word that a 12 year old boy might want to look up in the dictionary had been underlined in red.

Of course, she now has the dictionary at home. The party game is to think of a word and see if he's thought of it too. It's not just the obvious. Things like *genitals* and *G string* are there. She's thinking of returning it to him when he's 17. In front of the rest of the class of course. Or maybe give it to his parents on the next consultation evening.

Oooo - that's evil!

*cuts a slice of the , puts it on the plate and hands it to coely*

IIEM, a cup of anti-coffee, please. I'm desperately tired, but can't sleep.

How shocking to have a rep for being the person who talks so dirty that money can be bet on the fact it was me who blocked up the filters.



Can I have a large cup of virtual tea please, IIEM, to cover my confusion.

B

Love the dictionary story, Coley! Though I am a bit worried about the morality of teachers stealing text-books from children.

B

Aaah - admit feeling at least a little bit proud over it, Ben!

IIEM, a - thanks... *sits down with vanilla latte*

I'm getting my new w*rk PC today!


The one I'm currently on is going to crash any minute now... in Word, the menu at the top and all the buttons have disappeared, and when I right-click on the grey field I don't have anything to choose from...

Excel has lost a few buttons too, so every day I have to add them anew because they're gone again next time I start Excel - and everytime I start Excel it says I have to open Groupwise (mail) first, because it's using the Groupwise directories - what a load of crap! And I get a Visual Basic error message every time I close down Excel...

OOOh, that's not good...

[Mog] Yes, it's a sure sign you need a new compy ... ... Better hurry before your current one explodes!

Nobody in here for 2 days!

IIEM - stand still while I change your filters - wheesht now, you know you'll feel better with nice clean filters. Good...now please give me a very strong coffee. And stop sulking - Z will be back one of these days.

*wonders where the cleaning bots have gone, gets out tub of elbow grease and cloths, sets about giving the place a good rid-oot*

That's better! Now for some fresh flowers.

IIEM - you're purring nicely now