Corporate Blockage
They have started blocking any streaming audio or video sites at work. I can understand why, there were a few of people using p2p software at some point, and a few who would listen to internet radio all day which would of course take up a fair portion of the bandwidth and slow things down for people connecting remotely via Citrix, making their work conditions even worse than they already were since they were required to connect remotely via Citrix.
Still, it sucks. It lowers the quality of life. It makes work just a smidgen less enjoyable knowing that I’m now enclosed in a parentally controlled internet environment. They are also blocking Craigslist.org but clearly the software they are using is written by a bunch of f-ing morons because subdomains to craigslist.org still work, like baltimore.craigslist.org. sigh I so hate the idiot world of Windows software… (And yes, I’m a snobbish geek.)
Luckily, some little gems are still available elsewhere:
