On late Friday afternoon, I posted the entry titled “Super Freak”. I posted from home where we have a Norton Personal firewall running. We also just loaded Mozilla. Something in the Norton Personal firewall didn’t like me using Movable Type to create an entry using the Mozilla browser. My entry didn’t post until the better-half rebuilt the site using his laptop.
He spent some of the weekend troubleshooting the problem was but since his laptop (which uses a VPN and therefore no firewall) worked it was a bit difficult figuring out the riddle. That is until we connected it to the problem I’ve been having reading some blogs (images appearing as broken links) and the blasted firewall.
While I appreciate the protection the firewall gives us for all the back door/trojan/whosits/whatsits that try to connect to our computer at home, I do have to wonder why the firewall deemed it necessary to stop something I was sending out. To the computer and all its software, I say “I’m the Boss, Applesauce”.