08NOV06 Blogging in the P.R.C.

I've been away almost one week now, with great ambitions to document my travels on the web via Blogger and have quickly come to learn that blogging, like many other things here, is tightly managed by the government.
Controls on access to the web and various "blacklisted" websites has meant that, alas, http://rantsofants.blogspot.com is not able to be viewed by my friends here in China. Apart from the ongoing frustration in getting even the most basic post published - without images - I do find it amusing that somehow, my little website is deemed subversive enough to be blocked from general access here!
Guess I'll just have to update my travel journal when I get back to Canada later this month.