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Courtesy of memepool – the best blonde joke ever.

Another good piece on censorship in China, and the complicity of American tech companies, appears here in the International Herald Tribune.
Google won’t stop it because Yahoo and Microsoft have complied, and they can’t afford to lose the market. Yahoo won’t stop it because Google and Microsoft have complied, and they can’t afford to lose [...]

Need any more reasons to dislike Microsoft? Here’s one – they cheerfully assented to a request from Chinese authorities to delete the blog of perhaps China’s most well known blogger, journalist Zhao Jing.
It was bad enough last fall when Yahoo handed the identity of Chinese journalist Shi Tao to authorities on request, resulting in [...]

A bunch of things remain to be fixed after the host move (links all over are still hinky) but one thing I thought was working apparently was not.  The directory where I store my WP plugin stuff (specifically the MyNetflix2 plugin) somehow ended up in the wrong place.
It’s all better now though.  Follow the link [...]

A happy bit of Pac Man randomness here. Link courtesy of Alice @ Wonderland.
Oh, and happy new year, by the way.