No, Websense does not block Fox News. We have it and I just checked to make sure.

I thought it was robots who were going to be our overlords. And I had just learned all the various motor oils in order to serve as a sommelier (aka the wine guy).

Heh.

Re: Vernon Baker, I have left a message for his neighbor who is organizing the fund-raiser and will see if I can get some account information for people to send contributions to defray his medical expenses.

Re: George Lucas

Don't worry. He also said the first two movies would be good and they weren't. Lucas is like France; we can safely assume that his various don't represent actual fact. Thus, if he says "tearjerker," I suspect what we'll get something completely different.

Unless he actually gives Natalie Portman speaking lines, in which case the movie will suck eggs regardless of how cool anything else in the movie is.

I don't know about you, but when I hear the phrase "Revenge of the Sith", it doesn't exactly evoke the notion of a "tearjerker". Maybe he should have called it "The Force Whisperer" or "While You Were Frozen in Carbonite".

dirtdart: Just because Websense doesn't block Fox News at your company, doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. We use similiar software (I am an IT Manager) and I would think that what Websense does is to *categorize* certain sites; then the IT Manager selects which categories to block. At your co, the ITM probably hasn't blocked that category. The ridiculous thing here is that they seriously discriminated against Fox.

If anybody is interested in helping out Vernon Baker, I have the information on my blog about the fund that his neighbor has set up to defray his medical expenses.

Actually, rather than link-whore on this one, here's the info:

Checks should be made payable to the Vernon Baker Medical Fund and mailed to:

Marilyn Fletcher
1731 Fletcher Rd
Saint Maries, ID 83861-9383