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  Friday 2005-09-30 - Xining, China

More Chinese Internet

Above the supermarket in Xining is also an Internet cafe where I spend two hours catching up a bit on my blog — for only 1.5Ұ per hour: the cheapest so far. The price is set off by the quality: It’s very smokey here and the keyboards are so dirty that the keys regularly stick, especially the shift key, so it’s hard to type capitals and punctuation. Otherwise no problems after an attendant has installed an English keyboard driver for me. Apart from the fact that (much to my surprise) at one point while I’m busy typing a window pops up trying to entice me to a (Chinese? Japanese?) sex site. No thanks. I had thought that was all thoroughly filtered out in China…

posted: Thursday 2005-10-06 08:32 UTC internet access