Was it something I said?
Looking at my traffic stats, my traffic dropped from 1,500 visits to about 1,000 (and page views went from 2,700 to about 2,500) in about three days. I find that odd. Wonder what that’s all about?
Update: In comments, readers suggest I’ve been added to restricted site lists in various company servers. You can get around that by using proxy servers. Personally, I blame Google now that all those Chinese folks won’t be able to land here.
January 25th, 2006 at 1:05 am
Don’t know if it is related, but this last week my company banned your website via it’s proxy, as well as several others. Seems a bit arbitrary, as the AR-15 forums still come up, but Kim DT’s was blocked, along with many others. I wonder if there is a master list of “subversive” websites somewhere that major corporations subscribe to.
January 25th, 2006 at 1:22 am
There are several propgrams which control access to websites. The one used at my corporation ( for which I am the Technical Security Manager ) is called Surf Control. It has “categories” of websites that are unacceptable for viewing while at work. Firearms sites are just one of many, and the categories are updated automatically. Humans intervene only to unblock sites, not to add them (unless some “fanatic” in a position of power directs otherwise). However, as I can attest, it’s not about censoring 2nd Amendment organizations, at least not where I work. Rather, it’s about legal protections, because, at work, the corporation is liable for what you see, and for what others see you seeing. Lord forbid someone gets offended and sues. Then you, individually, and the corporation are each liable for whatever damages our out-of-control legal system decides to award. Because of that, most organizations have acceptable-use policies for work computers.
January 25th, 2006 at 3:49 am
Dave and Carl, I think you’re making it too complicated. The real reason is, hardly anybody else thinks Laurie Berkner is kinda hot.
🙂
January 25th, 2006 at 11:16 am
I blame the ATF.
Who is Laurie Berkner?
January 25th, 2006 at 11:19 am
your baby watch Noggin?
January 25th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
I have been using the proxy at “hidemyass.com”. In spite of the questionable name, they do what they promise; proxy me past or into systems that have decided to block my ISP.
January 25th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Good to know!
January 25th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Hmph.
*I* thought it was something you said – you have been on a bender with the NSA stuff (which most people think is justified), and you’ve railed against some other stuff that made me think “Is this guy losing it like Sullivan and Scalzi did?”, and you haven’t been posting as much – meh thinks.
But after the first two comments, I know those guys are right.
I setup hardware firewalls for small businesses. They are little 5-port “hubs” from Netgear, D-Link, LinkSys, and others. Most of them now have a feature that the firewall firmware can subscribe to a “Listing Service” that will download a new list of “blocked sites” on a monthly basis – for a fee, of course. I have talked all of my customers out of doing this, as a few weeks of logs will tell any employer what sites to block, but I’m sure there are lots of dumbasses who would pay the $20 a month and have it done for them. Next time I am in one of these routers, I will take note of the company it subscribes to and post that info. IIRC, there is a way to have your site removed from that list.
It’s kinda like Google in China, but smaller – more Capitalism driven. heh.
(The first part of this comment was sarcasm.)
January 25th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Jon,
I’ve not lost it yet. I hadn’t noticed posting frequency was but I guess it might be.
January 26th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Not if your company uses Websense, you can’t. It’s wise to most proxy avoidance tactics.
January 26th, 2006 at 11:28 am
“(The first part of this comment was sarcasm.)”
On a slow day at work, I can go through my blog links 3 times.
If you haven’t made an update during that interim, then you “haven’t been posting much”.
Hell, on those days CNN and FoxNews are slow posters to me. 🙂
February 1st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
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