Photos: …..while most of you are surfing the 'Net, here in the Middle Kingdom we are wading up to our necks in an unpleasant sludge of proxies, disconnections, no connections & restarts, while THEY, (whoever THEY are.....), still valiantly try to maintain total control of this, not hundred, but many million-headed monster. The proxy program sometimes works, sometimes takes forever. Now & again, it's possible to get straight onto some sites without the proxy but everything is blocked with it on. Suck it & see. It sucks!..... …..I have learned two words for paranoia in Chinese. I prefer the second, Wang Xiang Kuang, or “absurd thinking insanity”, but the first one, Pian Zhi Kuang, “slanting or predjudiced, persisting in, insanity” is not bad either. (more accurate interpretation by my Chinese readers are welco
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