I just wanted to be able to search. That's about the only reason.Why would you want to go over there. joke (kind of)
That is a big and busy site. I'm sure they will get back to you eventually.
Maybe they banned you before you did something to get banned? Kinda like a Minority Report thing?
I'm a firm believer in running a proxy on a site I host. Sometimes the filters at work give me an access denied (weapons). A Proxy fixes that annoying stuff.
I use a thumb drive fitted out with a browser and an ssh client (I highly recommend PortableApps). SSH into my external proxy and then tunnel my web traffic over the encrypted link.
I just use putty, but yes, same setup.