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Behind the scenes here at blog-city, there is a lot of information available to a humble blogger like me. For example? I can see where visitors are loggin gin from. Below is a top twenty of recent visitors.
At approximately 7:00 this morning, the connection to most international websites disappeared. All day I was muttering under my breath that they had finally gone completely mad and blocked everything outside of China (Chinese sites still work fine.)
On the 10th of October, around 5:30 pm (Beijing time), I was pottering around on the computer as usual, Googling for something or other, and accidentally clicked on a link to a Wikipedia article. Knowing that Wikipedia was blocked in China, I was ju
For the last week or so, I have been strolling the streets of Liuzhou with my head full of Bob Dylan's newest album, Modern Times. I am listening to it through the MP3 player built into my Nokia mobile phone. Of course, although the CD was released o
To my great surprise, while pottering around the internet this morning I come upon this website.
Several years, ago when I decided to start my website, I wanted this domain name. However, it had been bought up by a company in Texas who sat on it f
Like many people here, I regularly use Anonymouse to get round the blocks imposed on certain websites by the idiots who run this place. I am very grateful to the people at Anonymouse for providing this free service.
Many years ago in London, I popped into my local Volkswagon dealer to buy a set of replacement wiper blades and left with a brand new car. Not what I had intended. I had a similar experience this weekend.
I''m having a major "computers deciding not to work for no obvious reastion" day! The memory chips in Computer number 1 have had some kind of lovers tiff with the motherboard and gone off in the huff.
The monitor on Computer number 2 has decided