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Beaten to death for using Internet - Updated

Tuesday, 4 August 2009 11:47 A GMT+08

You've probably read this already, but I'm going to repeat the news that, in Nanning, a 15 or 16 year old boy has allegedly been beaten to death one day into a month long Internet Addiction cure.

Living in the Past

Thursday, 18 June 2009 1:19 P GMT+08

I have been wasting a lot of time, enjoyably time wandering through the good old British Library's new online collection of pages from British newspapers from 1800 to 1913. Well, the free ones, anyway.

Slow

Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:04 P GMT+08

For reasons I can't work out, the internet in Liuzhou is grinding to a halt. It is becoming harder and harder to get into sites. It has taken me hours to get here

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Turned Off

Thursday, 2 April 2009 10:13 P GMT+08

Sunday morning, I got up. That was an achievement. Wandered into the home office and found that I couldn't connect to Liuzhou's wonderful internet service. "Your user name or password is not valid."

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Golden Ripoff

Saturday, 15 March 2008 11:54 A GMT+08

I'm in the wrong business!

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Blocked City? Latest Update

Monday, 24 December 2007 5:49 P GMT+08

At approximately 19:30 (Beijing time) this evening, Blog-city became available after being ‘blocked’ in various parts of China throughout the day.

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Airport Antics

Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:50 P GMT+08

It is astonishing what people get up to in the privacy of their own homes. Well, at least I've heard it is.

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Myspace going round in circles

Sunday, 1 July 2007 11:04 A GMT+08

As most people probably know, it is possible for websites to detect which country a visitor is in. Clever stuff.

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Ukraine?

Wednesday, 18 April 2007 9:56 A GMT+08

Behind the scenes here at blog-city, there is a lot of information available to a humble blogger like me. For example? I can see where visitors are loggin gin from. Below is a top twenty of recent visitors.

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Liuzhou Website Down

Saturday, 7 April 2007 1:07 A GMT+08

My website at www.liuzhou.co.uk is unfortunately out of action. Normal service will, I hope, be resumed after the Easter break.

Chinese Restaurants

Monday, 26 March 2007 4:28 P GMT+08

I can't work this one out!

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China Daily Oddities

Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

Since the Great Internet Meltdown, I have increasingly relied on China Daily for news. This is not good.

What's Special about Google?

Thursday, 28 December 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

Here we are in Asian internet meltdown.

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China International Internet Cut Off! - Updated

Wednesday, 27 December 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

At approximately 7:00 this morning, the connection to most international websites disappeared. All day I was muttering under my breath that they had finally gone completely mad and blocked everything outside of China (Chinese sites still work fine.)

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Fame at last!

Monday, 16 October 2006 10:31 P GMT+08

On the 10th of October, around 5:30 pm (Beijing time), I was pottering around on the computer as usual, Googling for something or other, and accidentally clicked on a link to a Wikipedia article. Knowing that Wikipedia was blocked in China, I was ju

Internet bars and guns

Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:33 A GMT+08

Two Liuzhou stories in China Daily today show how exciting life can sometimes be.

Modern Times

Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

For the last week or so, I have been strolling the streets of Liuzhou with my head full of Bob Dylan's newest album, Modern Times. I am listening to it through the MP3 player built into my Nokia mobile phone. Of course, although the CD was released o

Unblocked

Friday, 18 August 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

For reasons which are completely unclear, this site and many other blogs have suddenly been unblocked here in China.

HELP!

Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

I am completely confused! Some idiot has completely stolen my website!

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Liuzhou.con

Sunday, 7 May 2006 10:14 A GMT+08

To my great surprise, while pottering around the internet this morning I come upon this website. Several years, ago when I decided to start my website, I wanted this domain name. However, it had been bought up by a company in Texas who sat on it f

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Anonymouse

Tuesday, 25 April 2006 6:03 P GMT+08

Like many people here, I regularly use Anonymouse to get round the blocks imposed on certain websites by the idiots who run this place. I am very grateful to the people at Anonymouse for providing this free service.

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Computer Sweeping Day?

Monday, 17 April 2006 11:59 P GMT+08

Many years ago in London, I popped into my local Volkswagon dealer to buy a set of replacement wiper blades and left with a brand new car. Not what I had intended. I had a similar experience this weekend.

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Bloody Computers!

Sunday, 16 April 2006 1:08 P GMT+08

I''m having a major "computers deciding not to work for no obvious reastion" day! The memory chips in Computer number 1 have had some kind of lovers tiff with the motherboard and gone off in the huff. The monitor on Computer number 2 has decided

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Google

Wednesday, 22 February 2006 1:25 P GMT+08

I'm confused again!

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