blocked?

i haven't had a lot of time to goof around on the internet yet, but at least some of the blogs i visit don't seem to load here. for example, eschaton and bark bark, woof woof. they weren't blocked when i was in far more restrictive countries than this one, like syria. we shall see if they still don't load if i try them from a different internet cafe, or use the mythical aktobe hotspot.

luckily, i haven't had any problem getting on this site.

UPDATE (12/21/09): i'm at a different internet cafe on a different browser and so i tried going to eschaton again. i got this:

Вы попытались получить доступ к адресу http://www.eschatonblog.com/, который сейчас недоступен. Убедитесь, что веб-адрес (URL) введен правильно, и попытайтесь перезагрузить страницу.
Убедитесь, что соединение с Интернет активно, и проверьте, работают ли другие приложения, использующие это соединение.

but i managed to find a work-around. i went to google translate to find out what the above message says. rather than cutting and pasting the above russian into the translate field, i put the url, http://www.eschatonblog.com/. that didn't give me a translation, it, it just directed me to atrios' page. that trick seems to work for all the blocked sites. woo-hoo!