One of the most annoying things that I have encountered in my centuries of office work is that often the I.T. guys will use some hack method of blocking out websites.
The worst one I’ve encountered was where, in order to prevent staff from commiting the cardinal sin of checking their webmail while at work, all websites with ‘mail’ in the URL were blocked by the WebMarshal. Well that’s all well and good for blocking out webmail sites, but little old me was wanting some information about an address and postcode in the UK, and as it turns our, their version of NZPost.co.nz is in fact www.royalmail.co.uk.
But Alas, I was restricted to wading through screeds and screeds of meaningless mumbo jumbo in a myriad of tourism sites in order to get to the information I need.
This in fact resulted in me spending more time and using more bandwidth than if I had been able to go the the site that I wanted to go to in the first place!!
Go Figure !!
Well stress no more as an interesting little “tool” has been found with our friends at Google !! 
If you’re tired of searching for anonymous proxy servers well try this:
Using the Google translation tool, you can copy the url and then enter the website that you wish to go to.
e.g. http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=sashots.wordpress.com
Simply replace the sashots.wordpress.com part with the webiste you want to go to and viola! you’re there
This simply uses the google translation tool to “translate” from english to english, but it goes through the google server so your firewall recognises it as google.
A bit fiddly but definitely very cool
Until next time……
