So I got fed up with my network connections dropping 80% of the way through copying 25-megabyte files halfway across the world. I've been using Robocopy, but without any command line options, it just starts over again.

I did a little digging and found the /z switch, which is supposed to make it pick up where it left off. It introduces a little overhead, but I can live with that. It's better than copying the files 1 1/2 times.

Finding out about it was the amusing part.

After stumbling upon the /z switch, I punched that into Google to see what other people were saying about it. That's where I learned about the increased overhead. Fine. But one of the links I clicked on was blocked by Smartfilter, which is the application my employer uses to keep us from spending all day watching Youtube.

Surprising? No. Smartfilter blocks lots of useful stuff that makes it a lot harder to do my job. But the category it put that page into was pretty amusing: Dating/Social.

I can just imagine that date now. Two people meet after work in a dimly-lit restaurant that will be out of business in 18 months. Instead of talking about music, or movies, the neighborhood, or the other things my wife and I talked about on our first date, they talk about Robocopy.

"Where have you been all my life? All I've ever looked for was a nice girl who knows what the /z switch in Robocopy does! I've never met a girl who knew what Robocopy was!"

Actually I might be able to think of one or two relationships that probably did go down something like that, now that I've mentioned it. I think that should scare me.