Test Post

This is a new test post to see if I can post directly from email to
blogger. Hopefully this will work.

Dorkwork 2, Hoyazo 0

Well guys what can I say. I set up google documents to let me post to the blog straight from there, but when I got into work today, I loaded google up, only to find that I once again am blocked from accessing google documents at work. Fucking incredible. "Personal storage and web messaging" my ass. I'm trying to figure out why these people are such fucking dorks, and I really cannot come up with any good answer. But to not let people access anything that remotely resembles fun or interesting material from the workplace, including inadvertently blocking me off from sites that I want to do purely work-related research on from time to time, it just smacks to me of the kind of over-regulation that really burns me up.

I mean, I am all about my work not wanting me to use what I freely understand are their assets for my amusement. But don't those people realize that if people want to surf the web and their work pc's don't allow them to, then the people who care are just going to figure out another way around the system? With the proliferation of web devices and PDAs already available, people will still just find alternate means of getting done what they want to get done. Plus, as it is, I end up cluttering up my work email servers with the personal emails that I need to send and receive during the day, since they won't let me access any web-based email services or similar websites.

And most of all, and this is something that I feel pretty strongly about, isn't there something to be said for people actually being more productive if you let them have a little bit of fun at work? Like I mentioned the other day here, it's not like I'm saying I should be able to check out a little bit of child pr0n during the day or anything. Or any pr0n for that matter. But why not allow me to view CardPlayer.com? I'm not saying I should be able to download full tilt onto my work computer and sit there playing online poker like some people. But not to even be able to read about an online poker site? Place a comment or two on my favorite non-work-related and non-inappropriate blog? Read a little about my favorite sporting event? Is that really so terrible for them to permit? I can only speak for myself in the end, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt for me that I am more productive when I have a little bit of freedom to relax during my down time, do an online crossword puzzle during lunch, and maybe even view one of Iggy's famous youtube clips when I have a free moment. Is that really so wrong?

So all this leaves me with one great option, something I've actually wanted to get for a long time anyways but have just been putting off because it costs approximately $85,000 to buy, but which I will finally be taking care of this weekend.

It's Treo time.

See you Monday for our regularly scheduled poker post, everyone. Thanks for bearing with me through these most trying of times.

Mookday, and Fucking Dorkwork Strikes Again

It's Wednesday, and that means it's Mookie day again!!! Be there tonight, 10pm ET on full tilt, password as always is "vegas1".

At this point, no long post tonight. Suffice it to say that I got into work this morning, logged on to blogger, and was instantly greeted to my chagrin with the "Access Denied" screen for the first time ever. Long story short, my dorkwork has finally caught on to the fact that they block youtube, they block all gambling-related sites, they block most sports and hobby sites, they block e-vite, and yet somehow they continue to permit blogger.com access at work. Well, no more. So my apologies out to all you out there who logged in today looking for your regular daily dose of my pompous craziness. I tried, and failed.

That said, I am committed to this change in my daily routine not affecting my loyal readers in any meaningful way. I truly love this blog, I still have an endless supply of poker and other stuff swirling around in my head, and I have no plans of slowing down what I've built up here over the past few years. So I already have a short-term sort of solution for the next few days, but on a longer-term basis I am already kicking around a few ideas on ways to post to my blog from a dorkwork that does not allow blogger.com access.

I had a nice post today detailing the recockulous set of dominated bad beat after dominated bad beat after dominated bad beat that I took at the hands of ftp "pro" Jonathan Little after getting down to heads-up with him in one of these $55 turbo sngs. I was going to talk a little fantasy football, and I was going to show how I beat up the nightly token frenzy yet again for the second time this week and my fourth frenzy win in the last two weeks. Now all of that will just become part of the increasing number of "draft" posts that I start but never actually get up here on the blog.

Instead I ask you all today: how can a guy keep blogging via blogger.com if my dorkwork now blocks blogger.com access? Isn't there some way I can use google documents to post directly to my blog from that website? Didn't I hear / read someone saying that some time before? What about just getting a Treo to have internet access while at work, something I've been kicking around doing anyways? Does "mobile blogging" work in a way that I could post from my work email address? Anyone else have any other creative ideas on how to blog without accessing blogger.com on my dorkwork internet? I would love any and all thoughts on the topic. But as I said above, rest assured that until that happens, I will keep getting content up here in the evenings or the early mornings for your reading pleasure. This blog is here to stay, and no fuckerz at my office will have any say on that matter. You can take my word on it.

Best of luck and I'll see you tonight for the Moooooooook!