When will they free WordPress.com completely?

The fact that GFWC is blocking WordPress.com has been giving me headaches for months now. How long will they keep it like this? Don’t they know that there are proxies that enable users to view blocked sites making it is useless to block sites? What do they think blocking is for? Shielding their citizens from useless or harmful info? What is there not to know? Why are they forbidding their citizens to know about the Beijing Massacre or Taiwan’s independence? It’s part of their history. Or maybe not a lot of them know that these are part of their history and this is their way of hiding it from their citizens. Their way of dummyfying their people.

I just want to say that I am leaving this blog. I will not delete it because some info here might still be helpful to some people. I’ll probably go back to it someday, who knows but for now I will concentrate on my other blogs.

Why? One reason is because it is blocked here. Everyday, I go all the trouble accessing WordPress.com just to update it and everyday it’s getting more and more difficult. I have paid for a service that allows me to access WordPress.com but it’s still not the same compared to using a WordPress.com that is not blocked. It’s still way more difficult.

I just watched the movie “Gracie”. Nice movie.

The laundry is waiting in the ironing room for me. Waahhhhh! Hate it, hate it, hate it!

Friends are coming over tomorrow evening for dinner. I will make chicken pasta with white wine. It should be good.

We are pairing up a friend to one of R’s college. They will meet for the first time tomorrow here at home. (I am playing Cupid.)

We are going to Beijing this Saturday so all my blogs will not be updated until Monday next week. Or maybe by miracle I get the patience to use R’S EDGE internet connection. Hmm… we will see.

It’s so damn cold here. It hurts to go outside.

This is one of the searches that lead to this blog days ago I didn’t write about it until now because I decided to ignore it but something happen today which gave me a really weird feeling.

Am I being cyber stalked?

But what is disappointing in the blogging world nowadays is that a lot of bloggers out there post about sponsored stuff as much as they can to the point that their blogs look like this whole Advert page of a newspaper. It’s not pretty. An example of this is a blog I stumbled upon just now. It’s claims to be a diary—the blogger’s life story. I thought, that’s interesting because the author is about my age so I looked further only to read something like :

Hey there are you looking for someone to help you out with your ****? Let me introduce you with ********. For your information, ******* is a ******* . (and so on).

Post after post, everything is a complete advertising campaign. I mean what the hell? Looks like blogs nowadays are written solely for blog advertising. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

1. Inputting my username and password once when logging in. The proxy site always ask me to enter my username and password more than once.
2. Write using the “Visual” mode. I don’t know why but there’s no option to use this. There’s just the “Code” mode.
3. Edit entries easily. When editing entries with links, the proxy site always change the links’ target to something like https : / / webfend dot com / 487261384603265032860328470832048732. Hahaha
4. View my Blog Stat Graph. I am still able to view my Blog Stat details but not the graph.

That’s pretty much all. It sucks but I am still glad that I am able to access and update my blog somehow. I wonder when will this country unblock WordPress.

I found this picture while browsing my files in boredom. It was taken last September in Beijing. I remember we took a super soft sleeper cabin in an overnight train to Beijing and in the morning when we got there, we chose to take this three wheeled thing instead of a taxi. It’s not because it is cheaper, actually we would have paid less if we took the taxi, but R would like to try. He likes to try a lot of stuff. I remember the first time we went to Beijing, he also tried eating barbecued scorpions. Was a little bit disgusting for both of us but it was also sort of cool.

I found some more interesting photos too but unfortunately, I am working with a proxy so things are a little bit slow and difficult. WordPress is still blocked. My guess, a lot of WordPress bloggers are writing stuff about C*** and the Com***nist Party. I can’t blame them. I would probably write about this country too but since I am in it, I will not.

Right now, I have a difficulty accessing WordPress in a normal way. What I meant by normal way is by typing www.wordpress.com on my browser and hitting the “Enter” key on my keyboard. Rarely does WordPress load quickly when I do this. Most of the time, I have to click on the refresh button several times before WordPress loads. Sometimes, it doesn’t load at all no matter how many times I refresh the page. So I have to wait a few hours before trying again. When I can’t wait, I use free anonymous proxy sites. These sites are very helpful but of course, I can’t work with them as well as when I am able to access WordPress directly.

I have a very good internet connection so I can’t say that I can’t load any site because my connection is slow. So if I can’t access a site by accessing it the normal way and I can access it with out problem when I use porxy, then I take it that site is blocked. Maybe I’m paranoid, whatever.

Sigh! It sucks.

But here is something that doesn’t suck.

I didn’t realize until today that I have a Google Page Rank of 6. Cool!

myla

But I just found out and thanks heavens that it is free again!