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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

From The Geniuses at Blogger.Com Tech Support...

Blame it on China. Yepper, that's an always convenient answer in the western mind, and has been for many decades. As you know by now, I have not been able to post for well more than a week using the Blogger application on my own domain on Interland, an independent ISP. Well, last night the ability to post mysteriously returned. Now, I had notified Blogger Tech Support shortly after everything went fritz, but nary a word came in response, until today.

Below is their response to the problem which I summed up to them originally thusly: "For at least three days I have not been able to post anything. I can get to my "dashboard"--sometimes--but then any and all functions I attempt result in a DNS or "Server Cannot Be Found" page. ... my blog, The LongBow Papers, is not blocked, I can access it but I cannot do anything but look at it."
Hi Joseph,

I'm afraid that the Chinese government has been blocking all BlogSpot
pages from being shown within that country for a while now, so it may be
that they are starting to block Blogger as well. I'm sorry about that, but
I'm afraid there's not much we can do. To rule out a problem on your
computer, though, you can try clearing your browser's cache and cookies,
and/or using a different computer.

Sincerely, Graham
Blogger Support
I would think that the Chinese government would block my blog, or Blogger.com itself, not fiddle with the internal workings of Blogger--I'm not at all sure they can even do that. So, what the hell, blame it on China the techies say and pass another joint.
 

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