Errand running.

This has actually been the first time I used the local bus system since the strike was over. The service hasn’t improved any; the bus to downtown Santa Cruz was a half hour late. Missing the bus back was entirely my fault, so I’m killing time in Borders, typing this entry for upload later since the evil T-Mobile pigdogs have taken over their wifi.

I finally got access to the church’s host, but the school’s network won’t let me FTP anything. (In English: The school’s computer system will not allow me to see or alter the contents of the server where the church’s web pages are.) There are a lot of things the school’s network won't allow, simply because the school doesn’t want to be liable for anything illegal that hackers might do with unlimited access.

So the school has a Net Nanny site-blocker to filter out the porn (which I actually appreciate, because it’s frighteningly easy to stumble across the stuff; every unrestricted Google or Altavista image search inevitably brings up something). It won't allow file-sharing. It won't allow BitTorrent. And, I’ve discovered, it won’t allow FTP, anonymous or otherwise. Yet it will allow iTunes sharing; probably because the IT guys don’t yet know how to block it.

So that meant I had to go to a coffeehouse to upload to the server. I had to go to a coffeehouse. (For those of you who know me, you know that’s not much of a hardship.) I didn’t have to buy the egg nog latté, but since it was there…. God bless the holidays.