Bye Bye Youtube
Why are all my Starcraft II Youtube vid’s dead links….
Porn I suppose is understandable to block, but the cybercops of the motherland, due to recent controversial footage being posted, have put up blockades around youtube as well – Chinese netizens can no longer view youtube.com – well at least not without the use of a proxy. For those of you that don’t know using a browser such as Opera Tor (spelling?), Firefox with a proxy add-on (google foxyproxy if you need this) or even the less user friendly/reliable add-ons to Microsofts archaic browser Internet Explorer [Shame on you if your reading my page through IE!!] will allow you to get around this inconvenience as well as grant you anonymous browsing.
Why is it such an inconvenience to me? one might ask. Well for starters I can no longer easily access scantily clad women stripping and/or dancing in various countries to all sorts of music I’ve never heard before – thus stemming the development of my international music sense *sigh* Seriously speaking though it is a major pain in the ass as many of the sites I’m developing as well as businessfolk I deal with utilize Youtube in a professional manner to get things done (product demo videos, tutorials, walk-throughs, company introductions, service outlines and so forth) all now appear as dead links (Google loves those *sad face*) traffic generated directly from youtube is also negatively impacted. Though aggrevating, on the lighter side the traffic we’re primarily targeting remains in the western world and thus remains unimpacted by this change. Sorry would be ex-patriot customers residing in China you’ll just have to deal with text and images for now.
Chinese Language Website 2.0
http://www.chinese.daviddho.com yes it’s no mistake the site is down (for now) but fear not it will be up and running again once my head cools down from my last attempt at fixing it up. The endlessly frustrating combination of poor internet connection/reliability and poorly constructed webbased applications does sometimes get the better of me. With any luck I should have this puppy up and running by the end of this week and will allow all of my fellow Chinese language students at the local university Shenzhen Da Xue 深圳大学 access to learning materials me and a few of my friends have contructed, class notes – graciously posted by me everyday – *cough* I mean days that I show up in class, class pictures, linkage to my previous website for the 1st level of Chinese, and some other useful links/online resources. Not to toot my own horn but it is becoming a handy networking resource for meeting reputable foreigners looking to get ahead in life through ventures in China. There is of course the consequential meeting of more ladyfolk involved with this networking but hey, I guess I’ve learned to cope with that inconvenience. ***That last lines for Sarah – you know who you are***
