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Back from Maine!
Aug. 27th, 2007 06:57 amHad a great time, had fresh lobster twice, fresh salmon once, hung out on beaches and tidal pools, clambered across rocks, bought some books and refrigerator magnets. Didn't check email once! (Russet's sister doesn't have a computer, much less an internet connection, and no one in range of her condo had one, either!)
We ended up going to the library to go online to find a hotel in Manchester to make our return flight(s) easier. We got instructions on how to access their system -- they use a proxy server that you have to plug in the IP address and port into your browser config! -- and you wouldn't believe the amount of filtering that they do!
Can't access web mail!
Can't access blogs or wikis!
Can't go into an HTTPS session!
Can't access SpareBrainsGames.Com because it has Games in the url!
Russet couldn't access the observatory! (possibly because of a slow connection on the observatory's side)
I could access my web mail through sparebrainsgames.com, so their filtering is more of a brute-force approach, i.e. probably url filtering without really looking at the content. If I lived their, I could easily route my email through web mail and get past it.
It would have been fun to bop around their filtering and see what naughty stuff we could have access, and it would have been additionally interesting to see if they were blocking the town sites of Scunthorpe or Middlesex, but we didn't really have time to play their silly little games.
The travel itself was kind of tiring. El Paso -> Houston -> Cincinatti -> Machester. With 2ish hour layovers in Houston and Cincinatti. Surprisingly, all of the flights were on time, both ways! And we flew on Brazilian commuter jets except on the Houston <-> El Paso leg. It was interesting, I'd never seen a jet with one seat against the port side, an aisle, then two seats. It sat around 50.
Anyway, excellent trip. We had lots of fun, Russet's mother is doing pretty well, and we're home. I'll be posting some beach pictures somewhere at some point if anyone is vaguely interested.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blather. :P
We ended up going to the library to go online to find a hotel in Manchester to make our return flight(s) easier. We got instructions on how to access their system -- they use a proxy server that you have to plug in the IP address and port into your browser config! -- and you wouldn't believe the amount of filtering that they do!
Can't access web mail!
Can't access blogs or wikis!
Can't go into an HTTPS session!
Can't access SpareBrainsGames.Com because it has Games in the url!
Russet couldn't access the observatory! (possibly because of a slow connection on the observatory's side)
I could access my web mail through sparebrainsgames.com, so their filtering is more of a brute-force approach, i.e. probably url filtering without really looking at the content. If I lived their, I could easily route my email through web mail and get past it.
It would have been fun to bop around their filtering and see what naughty stuff we could have access, and it would have been additionally interesting to see if they were blocking the town sites of Scunthorpe or Middlesex, but we didn't really have time to play their silly little games.
The travel itself was kind of tiring. El Paso -> Houston -> Cincinatti -> Machester. With 2ish hour layovers in Houston and Cincinatti. Surprisingly, all of the flights were on time, both ways! And we flew on Brazilian commuter jets except on the Houston <-> El Paso leg. It was interesting, I'd never seen a jet with one seat against the port side, an aisle, then two seats. It sat around 50.
Anyway, excellent trip. We had lots of fun, Russet's mother is doing pretty well, and we're home. I'll be posting some beach pictures somewhere at some point if anyone is vaguely interested.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blather. :P
