Eric's Beijing Diary

An old man walked up to me as I was parking my bike today. He looked at me for the longest time before working up the nerve to ask the question: "Are you Chinese or a foreigner?" Hmmm... I would have thought the blue eyes would have given it away. 'Course, China does have many minorities, but which one of them do I look like? Guess I should have asked him. I don't think he really thought I was a foreigner, or he wouldn't have asked. But there must have been something about my appearance that made him wonder. Maybe it was my black winter cap. Who knows.

Blogspot was blocked again today. I first saw the news item on the Danwei blog. I wouldn't have known it, because I just used it earlier today. It's interesting, because I had been interviewed by a fellow blogger, so I had been checking my blog earlier in the day. But I noticed a short article on the Danwei blog stating that it had been blocked. Hard to know why or when these things happen here. Some sites (such as www.voa.gov) are just absolutely off limits, but sites like Blogspot seem to open and close unpredictably.