Internet failure

[ladyofastolat]

I always feel a very surprisingly strong feeling of outrage when I can't find something out of the internet. It's not as if I believe that "it's all on the internet now," to use the argument of head teachers who are closing school libraries across the land, and there are many, many occasions when I would turn to a book, rather than the net. However, when I want to look up a quick fact, apparently I expect the internet to have the answer. Librarians are forever hearing users wail "it isn't on the internet!" only to find said fact within a few seconds, utilising their super librarian powers. So when a fact does elude me, I feel this enormous sense of outrage, as if the very universe itself has betrayed me.

ETA: Ooh! 15 minutes ago, I could view my Friends page, but now it's been blocked by my work filter, so when I get home, I might have some great clues as to exactly what words it doesn't like. I still reckon it's something totally random, like parsnip or marmoset.

Comments

[nilsigma.livejournal.com]

I used 'toad'. Sorry.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

The only person on my Friends list who updated at anything like the time in question was you, but I can't see any reason at all why it would react against anything in your post. Maybe it is "toad", after all. ;-)

[nilsigma.livejournal.com]

Or Mandelbrot.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

I thought about writing a post this afternoon, and using a very very very bad word to describe my seething hatred for Sarah Palin...but I didn't. Still, your filter is quite sensitive, so I feel compelled to say that it might have been me.

So when a fact does elude me, I feel this enormous sense of outrage, as if the very universe itself has betrayed me.

I feel that way when Wikipedia fails me.

[rhymer23.livejournal.com]

It definitely wasn't you, since I could see my Friends page one minute, and not the next, and you didn't post at any point around then. I had always assumed it was reacting to the presence of swearing, but sometimes I've been able to see my Friends page when it's had quite a lot of occurrences of the F word, for example, so I don't think it can be that.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oops. Wrong login there.