the IT department at work just blocked just about everything i use online except gmail and feedhole, network-wide. instead of increasing available bandwidth to meet growing demand (which they have not done since the mid-90’s), they are cutting anything and everything that they see as “non-business related”. this will, obviously, address the fact that they are trying to pipe ten tons of shit through a two ton pipe, but only for a little while. i refuse to vpn back into my own lan to do my day-to-day shit, particularly since I assume it is only a matter of time before they catch on to that, and kill my access to that too. i also am not going to make enough noise to change this internally without getting fired. they get enough blood outta me that they aren’t getting tears too. i am officially looking for another job. and by another job, i mean at a new place, not just a new job within this institution. my alternative is buying a goddamn sprint wireless PCMCIA modem for my laptop, which i may do anyhow.