Oddly enough, I’ve been able to reach Blogspot and Typepad blogs just fine, so I have absolutely no clue what’s going on. But if I had to offer a probably wildly unfounded theory, it’s that a recent story run in a certain local newspaper criticizing the government for failing to properly enforce a block on pro-North Korean websites on overseas servers resulted in someone getting the bright idea to shut down access to whole blog engines. Of course, this theory suffers from several holes, namely that the continuous access I enjoy to Blogspot and Typepad blogs would seem to suggest that this wasn’t a MIC decision, and I have no evidence of pro-North Korean websites being operated on Blogspot or Typepad. This whole mess is probably thanks to a technical error someone doesn’t even realize he made, which means that whatever is going on may or may not take some time to work itself out. If you still can’t access sites, bitch to your provider if it makes you feel better. Heck, it may even help get things resolved.
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But if I had to offer a probably wildly unfounded theory, it??s that a recent story run in a certain local newspaper criticizing the government for failing to properly enforce a block on pro-North Korean websites on overseas servers resulted in someone getting the bright idea to shut down access to whole blog engines.
The other problem with this theory is that it’s probably a safe guess that no one in the current government reads the aforementioned local paper (i.e., the Ye Olde Chosun).
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From what I can gather, it was only blogspot that was affected and only by KT. Hanaro and other ISPs could access at will but KT seemed to have a 5 day hate on for blogs.
I can get into blogspot.com, but I still can’t get into typepad.com. (I’m using Megapast).
Typepad still blocked. SK is coming to my house this evening to change my modem! Yep, that will do it!
I’m still unable to get into Typepad.
I’m sure, though, that if I called someone over and asked them to fix the problem, they’d take one look at the iMac and tell me that Typepad isn’t accessible because I’m using an Apple machine.
A few years ago, a fellow that I used to work with had installed Win XP on one hard-drive of his computer, while keeping Win 98 on a physically separate hard-drive of the same computer. That second hard-drive also had the code for a computer-aided language learning tool that he was writing (which ran on Win 98, which is why he was keeping that Windows version on the drive).
He couldn’t connect to the Net using XP, so he called up his service provider. The guy came out, and clearly nervous about working with a foreigner, set about the task of installing.
Or, at least, he tried to make it look that way: first, he told my coworker that his system couldn’t connect to the Net because of its physical structure (?) - so the fellow promptly connected via Win 98. Then, he said that he couldn’t connect with Win XP, because there were no drivers for it - so my coworker showed him the drivers from the install disk that the fellow had brought!
So the workman proceeds to take apart the computer (?!), and - perhaps you’ve guessed - drops the hard-drive with all the code! Gone, gone, and gone - with the last backup a month old.
Anyway, careful there, Kushibo