This is what happens when your internet connection is routed through a handful of other servers in other parts of the world. Sometimes the Internet thinks you’re in Germany.

That’s fine, really. So long as it doesn’t know I’m in China, I’m OK and I can update this blog and do all the other fine upstanding things I like to do online (like freeing Tibet, declaring Taiwan’s independence and talking about Tiananmen, or just downloading American TV shows). I just have to figure out how to say “Publish” in German.

But today, this site came up in Chinese. I don’t get that at all. I can’t view the site from China without a proxy server, but when I do, everything is in characters, which I can’t read. This makes no sense at all.

Isn’t censorship fun?

Quote of the Day:

Grandpa Simpson: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.

Courtesy of The Simpsons Quotes.

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