{"id":268,"date":"2009-05-25T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T05:05:25","slug":"funny-net-day-in-abbotsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Funny net day in Abbotsford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a funny net-day in Abbotsford today. I was at a couple meetings at University of Fraser Valley and I couldn&#8217;t get normal websites such as gmail, basecamp, or facebook. Not even plain old google. <em>But<\/em> I could get VPL&#8217;s super-weird user-unfriendly remote email connection where you have to go through a firewall with port 950, authenticate there with a generic login, leave that window open while you then go to an outlook-webclient page using a weird, hard-to-remember URL. It was astonishing. That weird email routine is usually hard to get inside the network of academic institutions; yet, today at UFV, I could get in using my laptop with a borrowed wireless authentication as well as using a library workstation and a guest-authentication.<\/p>\n<p>I mean. That&#8217;s just not normal. I&#8217;m sure they must have been having some kind of dns\/bandwidth\/I-don&#8217;t-know kind of problem to prevent google and gmail but to have that stuff *not* get through when weird email firewall stuff does get through is very strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a funny net-day in Abbotsford today. I was at a couple meetings at University of Fraser Valley and I couldn&#8217;t get normal websites such as gmail, basecamp, or facebook. Not even plain old google. But I could get VPL&#8217;s super-weird user-unfriendly remote email connection where you have to go through a firewall with port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nomads","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}