The Digital Life in China

The Digital life in Beijing has deteriorated since returning from the Holidays. I doubt there was much press in the US about the situation. An earthquake near Taiwan on December 26th disrupted the communication lines between the US and China. As a result, we have to do things differently in our digital life. One example of this............. I would like to add pictures to my blog but that does not seem to be possible right now. I have been able to post some new pictures including Hong Kong on ourWebshots site but for some reason not on this blog.

Vonage still seems to work okay as does Slingbox. Getting to our Hotmail is a real challenge and so is getting to some US websites. Lots of pages get time-out messages. You have to very patient. We understand that their are delays to repairing the communication lines. Hopefully, the repairs will be made soon.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/19/content_788005.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/16/content_784152.htm

The other challenge we have in China is censorship. Often there are pages that do not come back on the Internet. One example is Wikepedia. We cannot get to this website, their must be some article in there that is critical of the Chinese government. Some expats have told us about some software that we could download and would disguise our proxy settings (we have not resorted to this yet).

AF has been accepted into another University---Trinity in Dublin. She is still waiting to hear from her first choice, St. Andrews.