Late last night, Blogspot was suddenly "unblocked" again.
Just when I was on the point of switching over to the Firefox browser and doing some arcane tinkering with the settings to try to set up a 'remote host' workaround - scary stuff for someone as technologically 'challenged' as me!
It would seem that the Kafka Boys, or their tyrannical masters, have got over whatever little snit they were in with the blogging community and returned things to normal.
Or maybe the cleaning lady jogged a switch in the control room and put us back online accidentally? It could happen.
But no, the consensus here seems to be that the government was testing out some new filtering techniques, and - now that it is confident it can shut us down at a moment's notice - it has decided to be nice and enlightened and forward-looking again..... for a while.
It's not all good news, though. Proxyline now appears to be completely blocked! (At first, only access to Blogspot via this proxy was being blocked; then Wikipedia was excluded too; then....)
Anyone want to start placing bets on when they'll crack down on Blogspot again??
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