Google Gmail and blogging saves the day...

I was at the bank filling out the mortgage application the other day (as you do) when I realised I had left some important documents on my usb key back at the office, but I had also emailed them to my gmail account. Using the banks pc I tried to go to http://gmail.com and was surprised to see that it was blocked by their content filtering - I guess that they try to restrict web based email so they can control the flow of email into and out of the organisation. However, www.google.com/gmail was not blocked and I was able to access the email that I needed. I also needed to get some dates from the past for the application so thought I would look it up on my blog - except that absoblogginlutely.net was also blocked....so back to google, a search for the terms that I needed restricted to site:absoblogginlutely.net, a click on the cached link and I had all the information that I needed. Just shows how useless corporate filtering is.