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All school Internet access is crippled these days. Ours here in East Lothian is crippled with Websense. I discovered today that the entire .ru TLD is blocked! Yep – any web site that end .ru is blocked! I know why – Russian domains are notorious for running malicious code and hosting dodgy stuff, but isn’t it a bit over the top that we can’t access www.kremlin.ru?

[UPDATE] Dan from WebSense has been in touch to point out that it is not WebSense that is blocking everything from Russia – our local configuration is doing that.  I’ve changed the title of this post to more accurately reflect the situation.  And no, in case your wondering, Dan didn’t get all “you’ll be hearing from my lawyers” on me – the only communication I’ve had from him is the comment below

This post seems to have caused lots of hassle all ’round, one way and another.  As usual, I didn’t mean it to!

Stumble it!

Don’t try to go sailing in a force 6.  If you must, simply ensure that the ropes attached to the sails (sailors refer to these ropes as “sheets”) are not held in place (“cleated”) when you pick up the trolley upon which the boat is resting and turn it so that the wind is blowing across the side of the boat.

Obvious really – in hindsight

Stumble it!