So in other news.. Apparently, because of the earthquake in Taiwan yesterday (this morning?), several of the fiber-optic cables (providing China with bandwidth) on the ocean floor have been severed and consequently, Internet traffic in China today has been limited to Google, Gmail, sites on native servers and Blogger (for some inexplicable but giant gift-horse reason - maybe because the blogs themselves are unblocked and come with Chinese text for me nowadays, could mean they now exist on native servers). MSN and Skype are both down as well, foreign sites are slow or dead.
I hope this gets resolved soon (I've heard rumors of three weeks reparation time..), but in the meanwhile, if anyone knows anything from foreign news sites, I'd be grateful for some good ol'fashioned cut-and-paste mails about the situation.