Ah....where have I been?  I guess I needed a break. I am currently updating a Newsletter for work and I needed to test a blog site. So naturally, I chose this one. I need to show the techs in the districts how easy it is for a student to see inappropriate pictures when a blog site (such as blogger.com) is open.

Okay...I've seen enough.  I changed my interests to some unpleasant subjects, then went to other bloggers with the same (unpleasant) interests. About lost my lunch.

So, as an example let us say that blogger.com is allowed (open) in a school district. The reason is a lot of educators (teachers and such) create a blog on the site they are familiar with (such as our - blogger.com). They ask the tech to allow the site - let's call it Mr. Williams Science Class. On blogger.com it may be called: mrwilliams.blogger.com.  The filter recognizes the root in the URL. In this case, "blogger.com" It won't only allow mrwilliams.blogger.com, it must allow the entire site. I have tested this like crazy hoping I can just get Mr. Williams' blog site. These are examples, by the way.

Nope. Filter must allow the entire blogger.com site. Well, given a savvy student, once they realize that they can get to blogger.com, they can create a blog in about 15 minutes and place interests in their profile with subjects describing any sexual/fetish term you can think of - and begin finding others with the same interests who have posted pictures that you would never have believed existed 15 years ago.

To make it even worse, the tech has no idea how this works. Most of them don't. Not only do they allow blogger.com, but they allow the entire category. In our filter it is called blogger.forums.

That allows all blog sites (that the filter has categorized as such).  Wordpress.com.

There we go. Seven minutes. It took me 7 minutes to create a new blog site in wordpress.com, verify the site with one of my many fake e-mails and search for nude photos on the blog site. I was looking at nasties in no time.

The above wordpress.com is categorized in the forums.blogs category. So many districts have this open. I try to get the word out in my Newsletter. At my trainings, I discover that nobody reads my Newsletters.

What should I use? Shock and awe?  Should I have the host of the training sit there in front of everybody, create their own blog page on wordpress, type in nude under interests and let them all see for themselves?  Would I get in trouble for demonstrating this in a school? Sigh.

I have a training coming up next week. Nobody has signed up yet. They do not have time they say. I had three show at the last one. One tech was brand new, one tech will never get it (as in he will never understand how the filter works) and another was rather savvy, but I shocked him with what I showed them.

So, there you have it. Will Little Johnny see anything? - maybe not. High School Johnny - you betcha.

Looking out the window

My little great niece looking out the window with curious George. Picture provided by her Mom.

Such sweetness. Been over a month since I have seen this little one. Miss her.

We are still here at the Peruby household. Strange how I do not have the "urge" or "need" to post these days. Not certain as to why.

I suppose it comes and goes. Nothing happened that would have supplanted the exercise that I can think of.

I watched "The Imitation Game" and "Kidnapping Mr. Heineken"

I also got into an older series with Helen Mirren - "Prime Suspect". Only watched the first two.  Not certain I will watch any more.  Helen looks as if she has had work done, and if she has it was money well spent. She looks spectacular.

Good-bye, Sable

We put our older dog Sable, down on Wednesday. She was slowly getting worse over the last couple of years - the vet said she had really bad arthritis and could not guarantee an operation would be successful.  She fell down our basement steps and must have ruptured something.

The vet said the x-rays showed a possible tumor on either her heart or her spleen. Something inside ruptured and she had severe internal bleeding.

We had her cremated and the funeral home furnished a beautiful wooden box with her remains. That leaves 3 dogs and four cats. And one cat ain't lookin' so good.