On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Jan McLaughlin wrote:
> Are you able to access your blogger blog via email message --> post?
Haven't tried that.
Something strange. I have access to Blogger app to make posts, etc.
I even setup a new blog from here in China:
http://08solareclipse.blogspot.com
[ it's accessible from here in China. But, why is http://
eclipsechaser.blogspot.com NOT accessible?? Comet-track.com,
Jumplive.com are also not accessible. Interesting thing, the last 3
URLs that are NOT accessible are the URLs I have been sending to my
Chinese contact..who told me on the day I left that the govt will NOT
be allowing foreigners in (near Mongolian border) because of
Mongolian-Chinese politics & Olympics security. Could our emails
have been monitored, & that's why they're banned?? International
intrigue..?? ]
I even setup a Feedburner feed, submitted it to iTunes, got
confirmation from Apple, should be approved tomorrow.
I have now arrived in Hami, am sitting in my Hotel room, & 2 people
in local travel agency are working on getting me a driver/car hire to
take me around to check on observation site. I have a German friend
(who has permission from xxx Observatory), & we are in touch. It
should be straighforward to join his group. Except, his group is
nestled among a TON of people (all over the world). I prefer an
isolated setting (just me & my driver camping out the night before),
so I can get nice background for photos. Like I did in Egypt '06:
http://www.caltechscience.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.html
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> Is your cell phone working there?
I brought Samsung ACE (Sprint), which has quad band capability with
SIM card. Voice is fine. Data doesn't work (!!)...ARGH! (really
wanted to do mobile blogging). I assume because the phone is CDMA
data (??), & China uses GPRS data.
I stupidly left my Treo 650 (GSM, unlocked Cingular/ATT) at home, it
probably would have worked.
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> Wonder if you could go from computer --> cellphone --> shozu.com --
> > blog?
I plugged my Sprint SIM card back, downloaded Shozu, got it running.
Tried an upload..always got "transmission failed".
So, I'm relegated to same-day updates from Internet at hotel.
Which is OK. It lessens burden while travelling.
Thanks for the cognizant technical comments. I DO have Text
messaging with my German friend, so communication technology IS
working to our advantage
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> Jan
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> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:21 PM, byen00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I've been in China since 7/24, & have been blogging over:
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>> http://www.calechscience.com/08solareclipse/index.html
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>> I found that my websites Jumplive.com, Comet-track.com don't work in
>> China. I just tried to get to Blip.tv, & I get the same error
>> message
>> "timed out". I assume Blip.tv is up, & it is being blocked.
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>> My Blogger blogs htp://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com don't work either,
>> it is getting blocked.
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>> I really want to use Blip.tv to host my iPod/iTunes video, for an
>> iTunes video-podcast. What are my options?
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>> 1) use my own server
>> but I don't get the cool features of Blip.tv
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>> 2) any others?
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