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LANL BLOG blocked!

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By scooby
Do you believe this? The LANL was reported "blocked" for access from within lanl.gov.
I would not be surprised if LLNS does the same to our BLOG.
This is when Doobydew and I need your support!
If we are blocked, we should all write and ask questions.
Below is the LANL post reporting the blocking:

Well, it looks to me like LANS has everything under control here. They've even added a new web content filter to "secure" LANL staff from reading the blog from the lanl.gov domain. Pinky, I think LANL management is afraid of you.

Staff, however, don't seem to much care one way or another that the blog is being blocked, which is why I'm bugging out and leaving you again comfortably in charge.

Pinky, I want to thank you for doing such a fine job in running your blog, and for letting me put in my two cents every now and then. Good luck in running this puppy for whatever the remainder of its life will be; I'm sure you will do just fine with it on your own.

Likewise, good luck to the few remaining LANL staff whom I know that still work there. LANL is a changed place. I hope those of you who remain there enjoy the new management and work environment, but I am certainly glad that I am no longer work up on the hill.

Cheers,

-Gus
Posted by Gussie Fink-Nottle at 7:21 AM

Comments

Anonymous said…
I think Gus had a few too many beers before he posted that...it is a bit melodramatic. More likely he got tired of blogging. I don't blame him..it must be hard work to read all the troll posts and negativity.

As for the blocking, posts after that stated they can get though again. Minor glitch perhaps.
2/12/2008 11:23 PM
Frank Young said…
We started getting traffic again from lanl.gov around mid morning yesterday.

As for Gus, I think he states plainly enough that staff apathy is what frustrated him. I don't think beer had anything to do with it at 7:21 AM. And he still reads the blog and all the nasty comments, so I doubt they had anything to do with his decision either.

- Pinky
2/13/2008 10:21 AM
Anonymous said…
commenting seems to be blocked
but I haven't had any problem
reading the blog from my computer
at LANL

T.
2/13/2008 4:58 PM
Anonymous said…
If management was smart they'd leave the blog available for everyone to read and open for comment from any location. It's the only avenue the people have to be able to tell it like it is without fear of retaliation and punishment for their entire careers, as it is now if you were to state your issues to ULM or as far as that goes LLM. It's also a great place for management to see what people are saying about the organization, projects, people and management tactics. There's no class or seminar that ULM could hold that would provide them with this type of information, so again it would be to their benefit to let the blog ride and evolve into what ever it may. For sure ULM will realize what people think of them and how little respect they have among the working people and that's the beauty of it all. It's the perfect avenue for people to vent verbally instead of physically. It hard enough to have to come to work everyday and work along side people you dislike. Why not give the people a vent.
2/15/2008 12:55 PM
Anonymous said…
It's a lousy blog anyway. Probably doing everyone a favor by blocking it.
2/17/2008 7:19 PM
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