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You know, I don’t particularly enjoy it when there is censor involved in any media type. This may contradict my mostly favourable views on Singapore, considering they are a nation keen on censoring information, but that is something that I have come to accept. However, censoring my access to certain websites at work is not a valid use of corporate resources. I spent far more time circumventing the firewalls that I ever would have browsing ‘restricted’ websites.

What I really dislike is the overzealous nature of most filters. Is it convenient that the client’s firewall blocks mrexcel.com/board, a forum dedicated to Microsoft Excel. Even Adobe.com was blocked, which I found out when I tried to download the trial version of Adobe Flash CS4 to help complete my work. Oh, what a world we live in.

Interestingly enough, at another project site, there are two delivery firms working for the client. Our competitors are running the PMO office, so they decided it would be worth 3 weeks of effort to monitor our internet usage by user, and present a report to the client outlining just how much time we had wasted, despite being ahead of schedule. I suggested we publish a report outlining how they wasted 3 weeks watching us…

And just so you know, the lack of postings coincides fairly timely with my current project start date. I just really don’t feel like blogging once I get home, it tends to be more of a spur of the moment thing while I sit at work and think of other things.

Yet there is one thing that I ought to get to, and I thought this would be an appropriate preface.