Even in defeat, I try to be entertaining

[elfs]

Well, I finally had to give up and install a household filter. Omaha will protest that this was a lot more work than it should have been, and I would be inclined to agree with her if it handn't been a simple matter of installing two pieces of software the old-fashioned way: ./configure && make && sudo make install. I had forgotten just how underpowered the household router is: it's a Pentium M, 286MhZ machine with 32MB of ram and a 4GB drive. Still, it's been an absolute rock for the past six years. But we might have to up it a bit if we're asking it to do filtering.

Part of me is convinced that this is a failure: I haven't taught my kids well enough about what's good to put into their minds, and what isn't. On the other hand, I still can't watch them all the time, even when their computer is in the den where everyone can see it. And using SARG will at least give me an idea if they're trying repeatedly to get into things that I need to talk to them about.

Don't Go There

But you know me. I can't leave well enough alone. I hated the template for the warning, so I pulled it up in emacs and edited it. Omaha and I posed for a photograph. This is what you see if you try to navigate to Fleshbot. Whaddya think?

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Looks like something out of a Weird Al video. I don't know if that's a compliment or a criticizm.

Fleshbot? As a parent, I'd be more interested in HOW they learned of that site than that they were trying to get there...I prefer to interdict the vector rather than the information.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Fleshbot was what I chose as the base test. I imagine the girls have never even heard the term. I have no idea what I'll use to show them how it works. Maybe something that's at least in the air, like Playboy.