I meant to post something else this morning. I don’t remember what, now, but it doesn’t matter at the moment. I pulled up my bookmarks and clicked this blog to check for any comments on this week’s little payroll problem, but I found only an error message.

I flipped through my bookmarks, hitting other morning reads: The Humanaught was up and running. Granite Studio wasn’t. The Hao Hao Report worked fine. Wish I could say the same for my friend James in Turkey.

I switched browsers. Safari was no better.

Safari could not open the page “http://eyeseast.blogspot.com/” because the server stopped responding.

BlogSpot, it seems, is back on China’s bad side. I can’t be sure of this, but the pattern is consistent, and a simple proxy took me right to the previously unavailable pages.

This isn’t the first time the Great Firewall of China has clamped down on BlogSpot, Google’s all-popular posting tool. The server came back into the light the week I arrived in China, relieving me of the need to be righteously offended at having a blocked blog.

Well, now it seems I have a reason to be indignant. Someone said something that somebody upstairs didn’t like, and so, because that somebody just couldn’t deal with it, we’re getting the firewall again.

Quote of the Day:

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government
—Lenny Bruce

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