The following blog post appeared on my personal website on January 7, 2007 with the title "Senseless Web Filtering." A week or so later I received this letter from the school:

My school uses Websense to filter students' Web access. The network administrator has restricted a handful of categories, including "Freeware and Software Downloads," "Tasteless," "Shopping," among dozens others. All outgoing page requests are checked against Websense's master database, and the connection is denied if the URL shows up in one of the restricted categories.
I am frequently prevented from accessing a legitimate page that is blocked for questionable reasons. Examples include KrazyDad, blocked for his amazing mathematical screensavers, and Kotaku, blocked under the broad category of "Games." In the case