Posted in China, Travel on June 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Two days ago, I had a dreaded suspicion that the ce-nsor-ship here is getting worse when Yahoo and Flickr couldn’t be accessed. Today I had an interesting surprise – Wikipedia English is now opened! This is the strange bit of living here!
Also, today I went to this place called ‘798‘ which is an old factory [...]
Posted in China, General, Tech on June 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Just a small tech announcement that the server that this site is sitting on is now back to Hong Kong as the hosting company got their own data centre now in HK – which means the original blocked IP that I faced a few months back has changed, and for now I can access the [...]
Posted in China on June 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Yahoo! is back online now. Looks like my fears were unfounded – still you never know – and that’s the thing, whenever you see a site that should be there, and somehow seems to be down – you’ll immediately assume that they are doing some funny.
My suspicion for something ‘funny’ wasn’t based on a guess. [...]
Posted in China on June 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Today the ce-nn-sorship has gone big time here in Beiji-gn at least. For the last 24 hours, Yahoo could not be accessible. This is unprecedented. First it was (Yahoo-owned) Flickr, and now the entire Yahoo! Yahoo must have really stepped on the communications minister’s foot here or they are twisting their arm for something – [...]