The post further states that Google realizes and is prepared to accept that this may be the end of its business within the country.

Purely from a user’s perspective, it’s great to see the internet behemoth making an effort to stick to its principles. Whatever the motivation, and even if Eric Schmidt still doesn’t understand the importance of privacy, this is a reassuring point towards the “don’t be evil” tally.

Edit: Laughing Squid reports that Google has already stopped censoring google.cn.

Edit: Some Chinese reactions.

This is an email from Facebook. After I switched my language settings it started sending me mixed language emails.

And this is a terrific feature that I just noticed. I’m probably way behind the curve. Clicking the button downloads an ICS file which contains all the events invitation and opens with your favourite calendar program.

I'm a helpful soul. Stroke me.

My blind reliance on Google Maps sent me on a 2 hour wild goose chase in the pouring rain this week. I was searching for an engraver in Providence RI to add a name to a hip flask graduation gift for a member of my fencing team. I eventually found an address and a phone number, online but via a friend, and gave the owner of ‘Impressions’ engraving a call. She offered me her address but i turned it down as i was in a rush and believed i already had it.

On the plus side, i found out that it is possible to edit locations in Google Maps, however if you change the address by too large a distance it is not immediately updated. I wonder how Google sorts fraudulent updates from good ones?

So i guess the moral of this story is that nothing is more authoritative about a business than the person who stands to make money from it.

Setting up google apps was really easy actually. I simply had to add a Cname redirect to them in the advanced domain manager at godaddy, and add a couple of rules for email redirection.

Now I just wish that google apps had google reader attached to it so i could mover everything away from limpingforsympathy at googlemail to adam at [this domain]. It would anny me to have my email, calendar and docs in one place (apps) which didn’t function as a proper google account in other ways. Does anyone know a bit more about how that works?

Apparently there had been an error with one of the hard disks in the server (I found this out by checking the server status myself), and I had been affected. Anyway, I lost nothing.

The factor which bugs me most here is that Bluehost did nothing at all to get in touch with me, apparently opting instead to hope that I wasn’t in the habit of actually checking or using my web space.

Is there any web host which you would casre to reccommend? I know Alex Muller hosts at Nearly Free Speech, and would recommend it.