BicMan.org 2.01

I just wanted to post somewhere that I severely hate my job. Facebook isn’t the safest place for this. To top it off, my company laid off 22 people, so it feels less and less safe to work here. I will be spending my nights studying marketable skills and applying for jobs, apparently.

I’m currently working on a client site where they use WebSense to filter the internet.  KL and I have tried various means around this filtering, but we haven’t figured anything out yet.  I hated WebSense when I first encountered it, and while I still don’t like that it is implemented here, I now respect it as a product and a company.  Here is my story:

I’d never had trouble accessing bicman.org website from this client site until this week.  I tried to come here, and I was given a page saying that our favorite, crappy weblog is a “Sex” site and could not be accessed.  On Monday, I was annoyed, but I brushed it aside as just something I’d have to accept.  By Tuesday afternoon, my job had frustrated me to such a point where I wanted to be able to control SOMETHING.  I looked up WebSense on the interweb, and I sent them an e-mail saying that bicman.org wasn’t a sex site, and I didn’t feel it should be filtered.

Less than THREE HOURS later, I had a response, and not an auto-generated computer response.  Someone had already looked at the site, and recategorized it.  This site is virtually hosted, so it shared an IP with a sex site.  So then, I gave it a day for databases to propagate and such, and now, still being on the client site, I’m accessing bm.o.  My job sucks hardcore today, but at least I have one small success to get me through the day.

I’ve submitted my first resume. A guy I met through Natalie’s sister mentioned that his company has an opening. I submitted my resume, and now we’ll see.

Personally, I think I am incredibly underqualified for this position, but I figured I might as well whip up a resume and go from there.

I’m back in the office today after 5 days off. On Friday, I closed on my new house. The rest of the time has been packing and moving. The bulk of the move was done on Monday, and now we’re still trying to get all of the stragglers. It seems we have a lot of stuff.

I’ll be stopping by our apartment and storage unit to pick up a load of stuff tonight, but when I get home, I think I’m going to try to at least partially set up my office. The house is going to be the number one priority right now, but I’m going to try to save a little bit of energy to try and do a few things for this job search.