Month: March 2004

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Porn Day Recap

So, regarding Porn Day:

  • I did not win.
    • That honor was split between Steve and Ann.
    • I think I placed 3rd with about four positive hits.
  • It’s rather fascinating how many things Google is ineffective at filtering with SafeSearch on – like “creampies”.
    • My boss now knows what the previously mentioned term refers to.
      • I believe he emitted a loud “UGH” when he found out.
  • There are a handful of sites on the internet that are really, really hard to block. You couldn’t tell from the meager HTML source it was porn.
  • I’m happy to report that BumperCar is very effective at blocking kids from evil things at the default settings.
  • I added ICRA ratings to the root of my blog today – I figure that now that there’s a browser on the Mac that supports them, it’s not a horrible idea. I got a strange satisfaction from checking the “Content may set a bad example for children” button.

That’s all I’ve got for now; we’re probably doing another quick check tomorrow before we hopefully GM.

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Email From Pat Kiernan

This morning, I received an email regarding my NY1 post from Friday:

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:43:28 -0500
From: Pat Kiernan
To: Dan Dickinson
Subject: NY1
We got a good chuckle out of your review of Friday’s newscast … mainly
because the Gary reclining in the car report was a surprise to us (back
at the station) the first time he did it.
Pat

I’m curious how the post made its way to the NY1 office, but no matter. NY1 has once again made my day!
(I’m sure a number of you want details from Porn Day; I promise I will post some tonight.)

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Porn Day

As you might know if you’re in the cross-section of my readers who know me primarily through my work, we’ve been working on a kid’s webbrowser called BumperCar. It has been an interesting change of pace from the usual games, and has led us into directions we’re not used to going.

We’re currently in late beta, nearly ready to go Final Candidate. But we haven’t internally really beaten on the protection lately, and we’ve certainly been curious as to how it would fair against a kid desperate to see boobs.

So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Ian declared that Monday will be porn day – where we all sit down with the browser and try and find as much porn as possible while under kid protection. Prizes may be awarded.

Sometimes I wonder how on earth my life can be so weird. This is one of those times.

NOTE: I know some people will take it upon themselves to send me some links. I must politely decline on two grounds. One, it defeats the purpose of me trying to find it. Two, I know the kind of stuff some of you look at and it creeps the hell out of me.