Netgear and Google hurt my ego

I consider myself somewhat of a technical person and I pride myself by the fact that I’m able to problem-solve numerous issues when it comes to technology but I did find myself in a very tricky situation this morning.

I was trying to show my wife the NYT video review of the iPhone on Colin Daniels’ blog this morning only to find a big white block in place of the video player located on his page. I’ve watched this video there before so I figured there must be an issue with his blog.

I decided to find the original video on The Times’ Multimedia site only to discover that the video player on this site was too rendering in a huge white block.

So, at 8:30 this morning I phoned Colin up to tell him his video player was messed and he better sort it out. The panic in his voice was evident and I can only imagine what was going through his mind while he drove into the office!

Needless to say I received a call at about 9:00 to tell me that the video player was perfect on his side and while on the phone I clicked exactly what the root cause was.

In an effort to combat porn and adult sites from being viewed by my nearly 4 year old son Luke, I decided to activate the child protection settings on my Netgear router. Part of this process is to add keywords that you want to block and the word anal was one of them.

When I checked the log file of my router I realised that the Multimedia site for The Times contains google-analytics code on the site and hence the video was being blocked from my side.

Imagine my embarrassment when I had to call Colin and tell him I was a twit…