Lacking the words

I haven’t been posting mainly because I’ve been working on a website, the intention of this website being to allow kids in my school to play games on the school computers. The school’s internet is filtered by the ISP and its pretty crap really. Lots of times I’ve been trying to do research for something, King Lear for example, when I click a link to a site only to find it is blocked for being “pornographic” or for being a “hate speech” site. It really, really isn’t. What is perhaps stranger is some ways of getting round the filters. One way I used a while ago that seems to have stopped working now is to use Google’s cache, that used to work quite well until recently when it is very temperamental. Another odd one is sometimes clicking a link to a site will enable you to see it but if you type it into the address bar it won’t. It’s all very odd.

So, this site has been set up to get around the measures in place to enable people to play games at school. I’ve put a lot of work into it to make it nice and easy to manage and it also gave me something to try and do using PHP and MySQL. The basics of it are layed out, all that is left to do is to make it look nice, which may or may not be easy, I don’t know. It would be quite cool if the word got out and soon all IT lessons were turned into chaos with teachers unable to prevent kids from playing games. I think that would be pretty awesome, a socialist uprising to take over the school.

Or not.

We can all dream, can’t we?

Link to the site: here. By the way, the reason I have used the word malarky everywhere is to avoid saying the word games, as that will result in an automatic block it would appear. According to the firefox spell checker that isn’t how you spell malarky, it should have an e after the k. But that spelling is stupid so I’m changing it to mine.