Tuesday, June 01, 2010

I've Been Thinking Lately

I'm sure many of you know that Blogger is currently blocked in China -- courtesy of the Great Firewall of China -- and I have to use a proxy to get here. Now that wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that the only proxies we have are on my parents' computers, and I'm not particularly willing to pay a considerable (for a fifteen-year-old) chunk of money to subscribe to one on my own computer, and neither are my parents too willing to pay that money.

That said, I haven't been able to get onto this site from my own computer, so I have to borrow my dad's (or less frequently my mom's). That is really annoying. I want to be able to keep blogging because I enjoy it and it's extra writing practice for me, but having to copy the text onto an email and get it to another computer (when nobody else is already using said computer) where I can post onto Blogger tends to deter me from it.

So, I've been trying to figure out what to do about it. I really like Blogger, and ideally I'd just want it to not be blocked anymore, but since that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon, I'm trying to find another option. Any suggestions in the matter are very welcome.