Posted on July 5, 2007 - by Justin Hartman
Netgear and Google hurt my ego
I consider myself somewhat of a technical person and I pride myself by the fact that I’m able to problem-solve numerous issues when it comes to technology but I did find myself in a very tricky situation this morning.
I was trying to show my wife the NYT video review of the iPhone on Colin Daniels’ blog this morning only to find a big white block in place of the video player located on his page. I’ve watched this video there before so I figured there must be an issue with his blog.
I decided to find the original video on The Times’ Multimedia site only to discover that the video player on this site was too rendering in a huge white block.
So, at 8:30 this morning I phoned Colin up to tell him his video player was messed and he better sort it out. The panic in his voice was evident and I can only imagine what was going through his mind while he drove into the office!
Needless to say I received a call at about 9:00 to tell me that the video player was perfect on his side and while on the phone I clicked exactly what the root cause was.
In an effort to combat porn and adult sites from being viewed by my nearly 4 year old son Luke, I decided to activate the child protection settings on my Netgear router. Part of this process is to add keywords that you want to block and the word anal was one of them.
When I checked the log file of my router I realised that the Multimedia site for The Times contains google-analytics code on the site and hence the video was being blocked from my side.
Imagine my embarrassment when I had to call Colin and tell him I was a twit…
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LOL! I’ve only just stopped perspiring… thanks for a great start to the morning :-0
This will definitely go down in the annals of The Times (errrrr…. hope this comment makes it past Netgear)
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Funny read, but I’m sure that’s the first and last time you’ll use such disgusting on your blog
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I’m involved with sms2tv processes, the swear word moderation list is entertaining to say the least. Even I cringe when running through it.
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@Colin: LOL – well I’m pleased to contribute to some level of stress at least!
@Wezzo: Pal it’s probably not the first or the last time I’ll use this kind of vocab on my blog…
It is hell of a interesting to see listings of bad words that people use. I managed to find quite a cool site that had a SQL query containing a list of bad words that you could add to a forum site, blog site etc and I took a lot of those words to help filter out naughty things!
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hahahaha!!!
gotta love neatgear though for being so damn good!
I must admit, I love my netgear router.
(at this point all the non geeks roll their eyes and shake their heads at the fact that some people even go so far as to have a taste for different brands of dsl routers – yeah well, netgear is the bomb, nuff said)
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@Paul: Even I have to say you’re weird for having a favourite router – I simply chose Netgear because it was cheap
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:’(
take that back!
and neatgear don’t sell cheap routers, they sell routers cheap
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LOL! I've only just stopped perspiring… thanks for a great start to the morning :-0
This will definitely go down in the annals of The Times (errrrr…. hope this comment makes it past Netgear)
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Funny read, but I'm sure that's the first and last time you'll use such disgusting on your blog
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I'm involved with sms2tv processes, the swear word moderation list is entertaining to say the least. Even I cringe when running through it.
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July 5, 2007
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@Colin: LOL – well I'm pleased to contribute to some level of stress at least!
@Wezzo: Pal it's probably not the first or the last time I'll use this kind of vocab on my blog…
It is hell of a interesting to see listings of bad words that people use. I managed to find quite a cool site that had a SQL query containing a list of bad words that you could add to a forum site, blog site etc and I took a lot of those words to help filter out naughty things!
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hahahaha!!!
gotta love neatgear though for being so damn good!
I must admit, I love my netgear router.
(at this point all the non geeks roll their eyes and shake their heads at the fact that some people even go so far as to have a taste for different brands of dsl routers – yeah well, netgear is the bomb, nuff said)
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@Paul: Even I have to say you're weird for having a favourite router – I simply chose Netgear because it was cheap
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:'(
take that back!
and neatgear don't sell cheap routers, they sell routers cheap