Hate it!!!

[chrisbrendanetc]

So i am inspired at work and write most of a story. Time comes to go home, but I still want to work on it more so I decide to email it to myself. I know work has filters that will catch "bad" words, so I get sly, I change my story to wingdings! Good idea, no? No it wasn't becasue now I have the story at home, in wingdings, and when I try to

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[faeviljen]

that sucks hon.. you should bring your laptop to work more often...

[chrisbrendanetc]

I did, but it is much easier to write on the DL on my work computer, and it is a full size keyboard.

[macklinr]

If work has a filter, making a document in Wingdings should have any effect on it. The underlying characters will still read "FUCK" as "FUCK," regardless of font.

FUCK and FUCK are the same when it comes to filters, even though it looks different to you and I.

You might want to try zipping up your document, maybe as a password-protected zip so that if the filter unzips documents to check them, it won't be able to.

[chrisbrendanetc]

It let it through this time, but that is probably because it didn't say anything anymore.

[supresmooth]

You didn't save two versions? What's wrong with floppy disks? Solid state USB drives? CD-Rs? I mean, sneakerware maybe old school, but it works!

[chrisbrendanetc]

yeah I know! but I don't have a jumpdrive and our floppy drives at work don't write, they are read only. Work is a pain.

[supresmooth]

What's with the uber security?

[chrisbrendanetc]

Corporate email. we have to use our login for every page we go to and if it's not on the approved list it's blocked. We are on lockdown.

[tetrakatus]

Heh.... Life is weird sometimes.