Our MIS leadership, after pathetically proving how inefficient and incompetent they are during the last couple of days, has decided to block access to blogger (including many other commonly accessed sites/blogs - not to mention some banking sites) from our network. And I do not have an internet connection at home. So that may well mean that I am forced to abandon my blog, unless I find a house with a fixed line telephone, so I could blog from home.
So folks, if this is the end, thank you so much for reading my blog over the past 3+ years and making comments. I got to know many nice people through the blog and wish them all the best in their lives.
Any one could reach me at blogger@icloneable.com
Well the alternatives are to post via email to blogger and view content via proxy.
ReplyDeleteDon't give up mate.. keep the fight going.. not that I blog on a regular basis too.. (courtesy how busy I've gotten at work) but it's good to know that your trust blog is waiting for you to rant at any time you feel like it.
Would hate to lose a fellow Blogger.
Thats sad to hear. Would be intersting to know whether the real reason is to save some network bandwith or to restrict employees from blogging. If its the latter, it could be due to 2 reasons, ie: Restrict employees from discussing coperate matters within blogosphere or save time so that saved time could be used for project work.
ReplyDeleteWhatever is the reason, its not good. Its an era where most big companies move to and encourage blogs within intranets and also on external web eg: Sun, Accenture. That is because its accepted as a good and healthy as long as employees are using it in a responsible manner. Given that it has been used fairly in a responsible manner, its really sad if this is really materialised.
So "Mahasen Doesn't Blogging" going to be the new blog title? :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm just kidding. Don't let the network guys at your company to kill such a wonderful blog. As Chaar suggested, set your e-mail posting setting and use e-mails to post to blogger. And, BTW may be some of those anonymizer sites we use to view Tamilnet, can be helpful for you. If your network guys blocked blogger at domain level, you can use an anonymizer site to access blogger. Then, your proxy will see the URL of the anonymizer site, but blogger will work on a seperate frame in the same window.
Just write when ever possible mate. We will remember you. Always read your blog. At my office people are more scared of going information out through blogs than inefficiency. Don't worry. Just write when possible.
ReplyDeleteJust type your blog entry in word and goto a Web Cafe and post it,just 5 minutes job,don't give stupid reasons man
ReplyDeleteOnly to be expected in a Sri Lankan company machan. But like others mentioned, you have so many options. I mean I dont regularly follow your blog and have in many cases disagreed with what you said, but it doesnt mean I like someone 'having' to move out of blogging.
ReplyDeleteUse the email posting option Mahasen! And of course, you can still use proxies like http://www.myinternetproxy.com/
ReplyDeleteThis happens. Companies try to filter out what they think as unwanted. Some time ago most companies banned IM. Then later realized its a good way for co workers to keep in touch when teams are moved overseas etc.
ReplyDeleteTry to find an alternate method to get the word out. Most local companies have yet to wake up to the potential of blogging.
Don't give up just yet.
Hey dilantha, Office hours are for official work. If you may not be a office worker, you may not understand the value of it. If you really want to blog then you can do it after work. No restrictions at all. Why don't you think in that way?
ReplyDeleteHey....
ReplyDeleteGo for Dialog WiMAX...
Not WiMAX, but broadband over CDMA....
1 Meg connection costs about 4000 SLR.
If you want more details about this WiMAX, buzz me through google.
Hi..
ReplyDeleteIts very sad... but this happens in most of the companies. So best thing is bare with this situation and change our attitude and find an alternate method to blog, in a way it is not affect to your company's task.
ආයුබෝවන් මහසෙන්,
ReplyDeleteඔබ දීර්ඝ කාලාන්තරයක් පුරා පවත්වාගෙන ගිය වියුණු සටහන් අඩවිය තව දුරටත් පවත්වා ගෙන යාම මෙතරම් දුෂ්කර ද අපේ මහසෙන්?
ඔබ කියා ඇති අන්දමට ආයතනයේ අන්තර්ජාල ජාල හරහා යමෙකුගේ පෞද්ගලික වියුණු සටහන් බැලීම හෝ යමෙකුගේ පෞද්ගලික වියුණු සටහන් ආයතනයට අයත් පරිගණක පද්ධති භාවිතයෙන් පවත්වාගෙන යාමේ ඉඩකඩ සේවකයන් සදහා අවහිර කිරිමට, ආයතනයකට සම්පූර්ණ අයිතිය නැති නොවන්නේද අපේ මහසෙන්? ඒ සදහා "Our MIS leadership, after pathetically proving how inefficient and incompetent they are during the last couple of days, has decided to block access to blogger (including many other commonly accessed sites/blogs - not to mention some banking sites) from our network" කියමින් ආයතනයට දොස් නැගීම සාදාරණ කරුණක්ද අපේ මහසෙන්?
- Interestingly you blame and use the same infrastructure to criticize the infrastructure. මේ ගැන සිතා බලන්න අපේ මහසෙන්?. Most likely the MIS is doing a wonderful job for maintaining such a good IT Infrastructure. නැද්ද අපේ මහසෙන්?
සාමාන්‍යයෙන්, ආයතනයක සේවකයන් සඳහා, ආයතනයේ පරිගණක පද්ධති හා පරිගණක ජාල පරිහරණය කළයුතු අන්දම “Employee IT Policy”/”Employee Handbook” යනාදිය ඇති නම්ලත් සේවක ලියකිවිලි තුල විස්තර දක්නට ඇත. මේවා විටින් විට සංශෝධනය කිරීමේ අයිතිය සේවක සමාගමට සම්පූර්ණ අයිතියක් නැති නොවන්නේද අපේ මහසෙන්?
අන්තර්ජාල සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ලබා ගත හැකි ක්‍රම කිහිපයක් ගැන දැන්ටමත් ඔබේ වියුණු සටහනේ හිතවත් පාඨක විචාරණ මගින් දැනටමත් එලි දක්වා ඇත.
ඹබේ හිතවත් තවත් පාඨකයෙක් ලෙස මෙසේ මම ලියන්නෙමි. මෙන්න ඒ සඳහා වැඩිදුටත් කරුණු ස්වල්පයක් හා ඔබට ගත හැකි ක්‍රියා මාර්ග කිහිපයක් මෙසේය. :-
ඹබට මෙන්ම, ඔබේ වියුණු අඩවිය කියවන බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට මෙය ප්‍රයෝජනවත් වේ....
“So that may well mean that I am forced to abandon my blog, unless I find a house with a fixed line telephone, so I could blog from home.” ලෙස ඔබ ගෙදර කියා සඳහන් කලේ
කොළඹ ද ? ( http://mahasen.blogspot.com/2007/04/moved-in-with-sister.html සඳහන් කොළඹ ද ?)
මහනුවර ද ? (http://mahasen.blogspot.com/2007/02/chikungunya.html සඳහන් මහනුවර ද ?)
ඹබේ කොළඹ ගෙදර හා මහනුවර ගෙදර සඳහා පාවිච්චියට ඇත්තේ ජංගම දුරකථන සේවා පමණද? CDMA දුරකථන සේවාවක් සඳහා http://www2.singersl.com/singer/products/bell/index.asp / http://www.dialog.lk/en/cdma/ http://www.regulateonline.org/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=607/
පුරුක් බැලිමෙන් ඹබට වැදගත් විස්තර ලබාගත හැක.
(1) ඹබට ADSL ගිණුමක් ගෙදර ට ගත හැක.
නැති නම්-
(කොළඹ ට හා/හෝ මහනුවර ට ADSL )
(2) ඹබට dial-up අන්තර්ජාල ගිණුමක් ගෙදර ට ගත හැක.
නැති නම්-
(කොළඹ ට හා මහනුවර ට dial-up අන්තර්ජාල ගිණුමක්)
(3) ඹබට Wi-Fi හොට්ස්පොට් (Wi-Fi Hotspot) ඇති තැනක ඇති අන්තර්ජාලය පාවිච්චි කල හැක. (You had mentioned that you purchased a Laptop right? You could use Wi-Fi support with your Laptop (You had mentioned earlier about your laptop - http://mahasen.blogspot.com/2007/03/couldnt-resist.html)
ලංකාවේ දැනට ඇති පොදු Wi-Fi හොට්ස්පොට් ස්ථාන කිහිපයක්ම මෙම පුරුක් පිටුවේ සඳහන් කරයි http://www.dialog.lk/en/internet/corporate_service/wifi.html
නැති නම්-
(4) ඹබට GPRS හරහා අන්තර්ජාලය පාවිච්චි කල හැක. මෙම පුරුක් පිටුවේ සඳහන් කරයි.
http://www.dialog.lk/en/internet/corporate_service/gprs.html
නැති නම්-
(5) ඹබට සයිබර්-කැෆේ (Cyber-Café ) ස්ථානයකට ගොස්, එහි ඇති අන්තර්ජාලය පාවිච්චි කල හැක.
නැති නම්-
(6) යාළුවෙකුගේ උදව්වෙන් ඔහුගේ හෝ ඇයගේ ගෙදර ඇති අන්තර්ජාලය පාවිච්චි
කල හැක:- ADSL ගිණුමක් හෝ dial-up අන්තර්ජාල ගිණුමක්.
නැති නම්-
(7) නෑදෑ කෙනෙකුගේ ගෙදර ඇති අන්තර්ජාලය පාවිච්චි කල හැක:- ADSL ගිණුමක් හෝ dial-up අන්තර්ජාල ගිණුමක් පාවිච්චි
කල හැක.
නැති නම්-
(8) http://www.blogger.com/tour_shr.g මෙසේ සඳහන් කරයි:-
“You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog while you're on-the-go with Blogger Mobile.”
http://www.blogger.com/tour_pst.g මෙසේ ස්දහන් කරයි:-
“Blogger Mobile lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you're on-the-go. All you need to do is send a message to go@blogger.com from your phone. You don't even need a Blogger account. The message itself is enough to create a brand new blog and post whatever photo and text you've sent.”
go@blogger.com SMS ඊ_මේල්
ඔබේ ජංගම දුරකථනයට SMS ඊ_මේල් (SMS email) සේවය දැන්ටම්ත් නැතිනම් එය ලබා ගත හැක
(9) ඔබේ ජංගම දුරකථනයට අන්තර්ජාල සේවය ද ලබා ගත හැක. (Mobile Internet – WAP etc.)
ඔබට, ඔබේ වියුණු සටහන් අඩවිය අන්තර්ජලය තුළ තව දුරටත් පවත්වාගෙන යාමට, මෙම උපදෙස් ඔබට වැදගත් හා උපකාරිවේ යයි මම සිතමි.
(Please refer for more details from these links on how to read Sinhala Unicode,
http://www.fonts.lk/down.html / http://www.siyabas.lk/OS_Support
if you are unable to read this content which was written in Sinhala Unicode )
රුවන් ෴
I think that U would never give up,
ReplyDeleteUnless u feel lethargic with this
;-)
hey commooon you can easily afford an ADSL connection :-) Why worry ?????
ReplyDeleteBogging is really good and I see many SL blogs which share so much of valuable information in many different knowledge areas..
You may have faced this situation due to some few people who might be misusing the facilities ..
Dont give up.. I always read your blog and I find its interesting.. get a home connection soon,!
Whatever you decide, best wishes.
ReplyDeleteSeems rather ironic, you posted this on Friday the 13th, a day that is supposed to be bad luck.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, keep writing, on holidays, after hours or whatever.
you can go to a internet cafe for just 20/-... This is a shame reason to stop blogging.. I don't think reason is that. If u;ve fedup with blogging it's a different story, bad excuse brought forward.
ReplyDeleteHere is an answer from Malinthe about the problem of being forced to abandon your blog. So you do not need to find a house with a fixed line telephone anymore!, you can continue to blog from home, using a CDMA phone like what Malinthe http://malinthe.blogspot.com uses to maintain his blog.
ReplyDeleteසන්ටෙල් CDMA දත්ත වේගය
http://malinthe.blogspot.com/2007/08/cdma-suntel-cdma-data-speeds.html
You can get some details about how to get a Suntel CDMA phone from http://www.suntel.lk/pands/cdma.php
Mahasen may come back to blogging. He has moved to a new house with a fixed line phone.
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