As most people know who might ever read this page, I work in schools as a substitute teacher. Every once in a while I get lucky and there is a computer in the classroom that doesn’t require a logon or, like this one, has only Windows 98 which is easy to get around.

When I’m at school I need to pass the time once I get the kids to work. I often like to read the news and my friends’ sites. Today I tried to go straight to the sites of Jessica, Jacob, Akiko, and Elea but with no luck and got the message:

The page you requested has been blocked because it contains a banned word.

The funniest thing was that I was able to get directly to Andy’s site, which has the subheader “Andy ‘Bad Motherfucker’ Smith”.  His site was blocked at a different school the other day.

…I hope this post doesn’t help the DoJ in reviving the Children’s Online Protection Act by pointing out flaws in filters…