Once again the ISP’s in Thailand are at it – All BlogSpot based blogs are being actively blocked here. This came to my notice about 5 days back when I tried to access a friend’s blog and got a Network Timeout. I gave up thinking it was some temporary ISP hiccup – but the situation has continued to be the same for past 5 days. My suspicion was confirmed when I came across this forum thread today. Reports are pouring in from internet users around the country regarding the block.
The last time this had happened was around the middle of last year (May 2007). The ban was subsequently lifted sometime in June 2007. The reasons cited were political – which is understood, following the military government’s out lash against any liberal blog on politics that dared to speak favourably about deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
I’m scouring for further reports to figure out which all ISP’s are playing along, but I can say for sure about the one I use – i.e. TRUE INTERNET. By nature I believe it’s a simple domain block and the blogs can still be accessed using web-proxies, though apparently this is punishable by law (if caught). The BlogSpot blogs which use their own domain are still accessible.
As for the reason this time – I’m totally clueless.
Does anyone have any further information on this to share with us?
Gmail (and many of the major free email service providers) normally don’t allow you to attach executable (.exe) files and send them over to someone, because of security reasons – i.e. by barring this file type, they restrict the spread of various Worms and Trojans to a large extent. Even script files like .bat are blocked. This holds true even if you rename such files,…
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Have you ever felt the need of backing-up your flash drive entirely? I mean keeping a backup of the stuff you’ve got on your USB Disk maybe as easy as just copying it all off to a folder on your hard drive – but how about a nicely compressed single-file image… something similar to the partition backup images created by Norton Ghost, Acronis TrueImage and…
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If you’ve ever wanted to share PowerPoint presentations on the web but cursed at the lack of of a way – iSpring Free can do it for you for free! It’s this really cool plug-in that inserts itself into PowerPoint and provides you with a button that creates a flash-based sideshow at a single click.
And not just that – in case you wanted to incorporate…
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Here are two extremely funny renditions of the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that is such a part and parcel of the whole Windows series… I dug them up from this site today.
Have fun !
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The default file copy method in Windows (any given version) is severely handicapped. First and foremost – it’s SLOW. The probably the worst part of it is that there’s no way to resume on error. Supposing your file copy operation throws up an error (say, due to some problems while reading the source) – you don’t have any method at your disposal to get rid…
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Just came across this new free service named Chawt which lets you send unlimited SMS (text messages) to any mobile phone across the globe (to over 160 countries). The service is brought to you by a company named Breathe Mobile. The site seems brand new (domain registration is as recent as 10th June, 2008) and the creator(s) have taken a very minimalistic (read bare bones)…
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Another quick announcement. I just released another version (0.9) of curreX – the Ajax based Currency Converter widget for WordPress.
Starting from this version, curreX also includes a Flash based widget and provides you with the option of selecting between the HTML/JavaScript version and it’s Flash counterpart from the widget configuration panel of WordPress.
A quick preview of the flash widget can be obtained from here. I’m…
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