Every day when I come into work, I sit down at my desk, logon to my computer, and bring up my essential programs: internal web applications, Legacy, Outlook, etc. I also check the news and weather right away too. After a quick glance at CNN, MSNBC, & BroadbandReports, I get to work.
About once an our (in between all my work), I pop back on CNN and MSNBC to check the news or read stories I didn’t have time to read before. A day last week, like any day before it, I was checking MSNBC at about 11:45 AM, reading up on how Bush continues to break the law and display utter contempt for the Constitution. At 12:15PM, right before I went to lunch, I went back to MSNBC to finish the story, and instead of getting the page I requested, I instead got this:
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Screen Capture #2
Well, look what I get there. 🙂 I get an animated icon of a guy mooning me, and then flipping me off. (I couldn’t reproduce the animated icon here, which is why there are two screen captures.) Immediately, I thought MSNBC was hacked. I called home instantly, had my father check it from home, but his MSNBC page loaded fine. I knew something was amuck, so I had some coworkers try it, but they too were brought to a page of an icon telling them to flip off.
I even asked for help/confirmation at a site I frequent.
As it turns out, this is either something the IT guys at my job setup (intentially or not), or it’s some larger conspiracy that I don’t know about. 🙂 All I wanted was the news, and instead I got a guy giving me the middle finger. 🙂
For the geeks that might read this, a quick drop to a “cmd” prompt shell from XP and then typing “ipconfig /flushdns” then resulted in MSNBC.com displaying properly. Bye bye middle finger guy. 😉