well hello there
I just got knocked on my ass for a week with an awful, awful cold -- although it felt like maybe a touch of the flu, too. I'm feeling about 75% and I have something resembling an appetite again, so I'm back at work (I was out for 2 days! That's almost unheard of in my group - normally you have to be on your deathbed to do something like that. But why? Isn't that why we work for the gov't? I think I'm in the crazy work-a-holic group and I need to transfer to be with the normal folks).
Time for another installment of...
The Daily Quirk: Observations of a Jaded Federal Employee
The Lianhanshee Story
By Lianhanshee
With Dwight Schrute
I think someone in our IT office is thinking a little too much outside-the-box, i.e., back-asswards. There's a very short list of "trusted sites" maintained by IT, like news sites and business-y related stuff and our agency's own website, and whenever we are navigating to a trusted site, we get the following pop-up, requiring our response before the browser loads the trusted page:
Security Alert
The current Web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted sites list. Do you want to allow this?
Current site: www.google.com
Trusted site: [my agency’s public homepage]
You would think it would be more of a security concern if employees were to warn us about navigating to NON-trusted sites! Plus, having to hit "Yes" every time we wanted to load a non-trusted page? Would annoy people so much that browsing at work would become obsolete. Ah, government. There's gotta be a method to its madness.
Resolution Update: I have not bitten my nails in two weeks! My success is attributable to having those acrylic things chemically bonded to my tiny nail beds. I had to keep telling the technician, "Shorter, shorter!" because I have never once had long nails and even with these, I can't do simple things like pick a pen out of my bag or type without making a thousand mistakes. They'll take some getting used to, and they're not forever... just long enough to get out of my nervous nail-biting habit! So far, so good.
Field Trip Alert: One night next week, to the National Portrait Gallery to see Stephen Colbert's portrait. Only two stops away on Metro!
Time for another installment of...
The Daily Quirk: Observations of a Jaded Federal Employee
The Lianhanshee Story
By Lianhanshee
With Dwight Schrute
I think someone in our IT office is thinking a little too much outside-the-box, i.e., back-asswards. There's a very short list of "trusted sites" maintained by IT, like news sites and business-y related stuff and our agency's own website, and whenever we are navigating to a trusted site, we get the following pop-up, requiring our response before the browser loads the trusted page:
Security Alert
The current Web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted sites list. Do you want to allow this?
Current site: www.google.com
Trusted site: [my agency’s public homepage]
You would think it would be more of a security concern if employees were to warn us about navigating to NON-trusted sites! Plus, having to hit "Yes" every time we wanted to load a non-trusted page? Would annoy people so much that browsing at work would become obsolete. Ah, government. There's gotta be a method to its madness.
Resolution Update: I have not bitten my nails in two weeks! My success is attributable to having those acrylic things chemically bonded to my tiny nail beds. I had to keep telling the technician, "Shorter, shorter!" because I have never once had long nails and even with these, I can't do simple things like pick a pen out of my bag or type without making a thousand mistakes. They'll take some getting used to, and they're not forever... just long enough to get out of my nervous nail-biting habit! So far, so good.
Field Trip Alert: One night next week, to the National Portrait Gallery to see Stephen Colbert's portrait. Only two stops away on Metro!