{"id":71,"date":"2006-01-23T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-02-14T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:26:13","slug":"it-department-trickery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/it-department-trickery\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Department Trickery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>, MSNBC<\/a>, & BroadbandReports<\/a>, I get to work.<\/p>\n

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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Well, look what I get there. \ud83d\ude42 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.<\/p>\n

I even asked for help\/confirmation at a site I frequent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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. \ud83d\ude42 All I wanted was the news, and instead I got a guy giving me the middle finger. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n


\nFor 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. \ud83d\ude09
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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 … <\/p>\n

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