Back from San Antonio

2003-08-23T08:05:54Z 2003-08-23T08:05:54Z Back from San Antonio 2003-08-23T08:05:54Z

I’m back from a trip to San Antonio, where I spent a week with hightly-filtered net access where I was training. I quickly discovered that of my two favorite blogs (<a href="http://volokh.com/">the Volokh Conspiracy</a> and <a href="http://www.calpundit.com/">Calpundit</a>), one of them, Calpundit, was blocked, as it was considered a “personal site” by the filtering software. I saw no evidence of any systematic bias against “liberal” or “conservative” blogs. But the decisions about which blogs were “personal sites” seemed so arbitrary. When I go back in September for more training, I'll try a more systematic study of what blogs are blocked. Oh, and I couldn’t get to my email either, since “external email sites” were blocked as well. When I returned, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I only had 29 copies of the Sobig worm waiting in my mailbox. Downtown San Antonio itself is quite lovely. If you’re ever there, I highly recommend dropping by <a href="http://www.landing.com/">Jim Cullum’s Landing</a> for half-price margaritas and live jazz. I would, however, like to strangle whoever came up with the stupid marketing slogan “Don’t Mess with Texas”, which appeared plastered all over T-shirts and shot glasses in every souvenir boutique I saw. http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/640 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=640