China is so frustrating sometimes. I am currently accessing Xanga through a backdoor of sorts which I am sure Beijing does not like. That is because Xanga is still being blocked. The extra frustrating thing is that now all Flickr pictures are blocked in China. I can still go to the sites and see all text but no photos show up. Well this is nice of them (China) what is the point of going to a photo website if you cannot see any photos? Ugh.

It seems that while I have lived here (one year, wow) they are blocking more instead of less. Here is the list of sites that have been or are blocked.

Xanga - For the last four months or so.

Myspace - On and off

LiveJournal - For the last four months or so.

Flickr - All pictures, for the last week.

Wikipedia, BBC, Lots of random sites - Years

So this is what life is like in a Communist country.

Sometimes I forget that China is a communist country then I try to look a wikipedia website on flying squirrels and I am reminded when I get an error message.