Less well than usual
Now what's going on?
Yesterday and, it now seems, today, the mobile network was in a parlous state. My phone spent most of the day bleeping, which means that it was losing the signal and then getting it back again.
I'm surfing around Cyberia, but finding several websites off the menu. No Map-Center or its successor, or Q3W forums; the whole of MSN is down (last minute pre-Yuletide tinkering?); can't get onto The Independent (even via IE 7; I had a problem accessing the site with Firefox the other day, but no problem with IE); the formatting on The Guardian site in IE is complete shite (but all right with Firefox), as if the style sheet isn't getting rendered (which it probably isn't knowing MS's lax adherence to Web standards); no Danwei or ESWN or lost laowai. Japundit didn't even waste time dawdling and delaying before it proved inaccessible, which suggests that Japan-based sites may be blocked in general at the moment (although I'm not implying malicious intent on Nanny's part; well, not much).
Various other sites are also unavailable. Although Danwei's based in China, I'm not surprised it's inaccessible. It's been caught out more than once, though not through any fault of its own. Seems that RSS feed from blogger are being blocked or diverted. Google's all right; China Daily ditto (interest rates have been raised again); language log ditto. This aged page on Akkadian linguistics is viewable, and you can still learn about Coptic on this similarly aged page.
I'm trying various links from A Web of On-line Grammars which is based at a German university. Some of the links are to defunct sites, but in one or two instances I've been diverted to some page in Chinese. On the other hand, check out what there is on the Virdainas page, but Nanny's not blocking it. I try to check out a site on Udmurt and get redirected.
I'm going to be charitable and assume that there's some maintenance in progress. I hope that this isn't going to drag on, because I have a four-day weekend thanks to the Senior 2 exams being on Monday and Tuesday next week.
Yesterday and, it now seems, today, the mobile network was in a parlous state. My phone spent most of the day bleeping, which means that it was losing the signal and then getting it back again.
I'm surfing around Cyberia, but finding several websites off the menu. No Map-Center or its successor, or Q3W forums; the whole of MSN is down (last minute pre-Yuletide tinkering?); can't get onto The Independent (even via IE 7; I had a problem accessing the site with Firefox the other day, but no problem with IE); the formatting on The Guardian site in IE is complete shite (but all right with Firefox), as if the style sheet isn't getting rendered (which it probably isn't knowing MS's lax adherence to Web standards); no Danwei or ESWN or lost laowai. Japundit didn't even waste time dawdling and delaying before it proved inaccessible, which suggests that Japan-based sites may be blocked in general at the moment (although I'm not implying malicious intent on Nanny's part; well, not much).
Various other sites are also unavailable. Although Danwei's based in China, I'm not surprised it's inaccessible. It's been caught out more than once, though not through any fault of its own. Seems that RSS feed from blogger are being blocked or diverted. Google's all right; China Daily ditto (interest rates have been raised again); language log ditto. This aged page on Akkadian linguistics is viewable, and you can still learn about Coptic on this similarly aged page.
I'm trying various links from A Web of On-line Grammars which is based at a German university. Some of the links are to defunct sites, but in one or two instances I've been diverted to some page in Chinese. On the other hand, check out what there is on the Virdainas page, but Nanny's not blocking it. I try to check out a site on Udmurt and get redirected.
I'm going to be charitable and assume that there's some maintenance in progress. I hope that this isn't going to drag on, because I have a four-day weekend thanks to the Senior 2 exams being on Monday and Tuesday next week.
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