In an idle five minutes whilst eating a buttered hot cross bun, not having anything to write about, I thought that my one-post blog deserved a visit counter. I remembered that for a previous blog I'd used statcounter.com and even remembered my login and password. All was very simple and I noted with pleasure how easy it is now to add javascript to a blog.
Easy.
Except the counter didn't appear - just one of those funny red crosses when a picture is missing. I followed the same process again and - same result. In an effort to see what was going on, I pasted the URL of the picture into the IE address bar and hit return.
Oh.
What appeared was a warning message from my employer saying that the page had been blocked because it fell into the category of "sex". What is more, the message said that my name (which it echoed back to me, to prove that it knew who I was) had been logged as someone who had tried to access a site in the "sex" category.
For some reason my employers filter software thinks that c39.statcounter.com is something more than just a counter - maybe it is. I've now canabilised a counter from a disused web site of mine - c6.statcounter.com is apparently pure as the driven snow.
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