*giggles uncontrollably*

[lnr]

Today I pointed someone at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/weight/bmi.gif

The page they got back was this one: http://www.tropic.org.uk/~edward/images/random/Rick-pic.2004-09-17.jpg

I nearly fell over laughing.

Comments

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

How on earth did it decide that?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

My work's banned list now includes 'intolerance'. Strangely, when your work is political, you come across quite a lot of intolerant stuff.

[satanicsocks.livejournal.com]

The BT security blocker is ridiculous IME. Only a week more left for me to submit to its whims... If you're stuck behind it indefinitely, I pity you :(

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

No, it's something called, umm, I-Gear? Anyway, can just go home and use my broadband I guess.

[satanicsocks.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, the one in the screenshot is the BT one, and it's sillysillysilly. Gah.

[lnr]

BT internal one I think, for people working there. Could be wrong.

[satanicsocks.livejournal.com]

Yup. I work there too. I see it far too much. :(

[lnr]

Ah right, small world :-)

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

Not only funny but sinister too.

[songster.livejournal.com]

What program are you using to generate those graphs? I ought to start putting something up online myself as assistance.

[lnr]

It's a collection of scripts cobbled together by simonb and then hacked about a little bit by me.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

The underlying graphing program is gnuplot; there is a kludge of scripts glued together by make to get it to work. Its the sort of thing which will only work on a Unix box. However its built so that all I need to do is put a single line in a file and type make for it to generate the graphs, update a web page and post an LJ entry (see here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/simonb/358690.html) for an example)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... Our place banned it too, with that nice reassuring graphic that says Human Resources are protecting us from forbidden content.