Friday, December 02, 2005
Intimates Shopping at Panera
It's a free Showtime preview weekend for us DirecTV customers too cheap to pay for the premium channels. Want to check out what's on tonight? Make sure you do it before visiting your local Panera Bread ("BreadCo" for my local friends). The firewall apparently thinks I am interested in scantily clad models. From SonicWALL (Panera's firewall of choice):
The URL
http://www.sho.com
is currently rated as:
http://www.sho.com
is currently rated as:
Category 14: | | Arts/Entertainment |
Category 2: | | Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit |
The funny thing is that HBO's web site is rated in a completely different category:
The URL
http://www.hbo.com
is currently rated as:
http://www.hbo.com
is currently rated as:
Category 44: | | Recreation and Hobbies |
Recreation and Hobbies? What are they thinking? This is classic case of how "computers are as dumb as a coal bucket" (as one of my managers once said to me long ago). Can you imagine how much red tape it would take to get SonicWALL to fix this? I'm headed to Starbucks..
Oh, and by the way.. I can tell you that if you watch HBO late at night you can get a lot more than Recreation and Hobbies. You can get content that 20 years ago would not have received an R rating.
