[m i a o w] the cat

I have just updated mysmallboat.com (my internet connection here is so fast it makes me weep) and I went to check the site’s email - which is a gmail address. That’s when I realised that they’ve finally done it. They have blocked all major webmail sites. This has been ‘in place’ since February - but hasn’t actually worked until now. So then, of course I had to spend the next 20 minutes figuring out how to get around it. I played around with different proxy settings and then found this site - and after plowing through a mix of helpful suggestions and self-righteous pronouncements, I hit paydirt. I can get to gmail without being blocked by using https://gmail.google.com/ - it’s the ’s’ in the http that apparently makes it too hard for the proxy server to deal with. Chalk one up to me - a small victory against the system.