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As reported earlier, GW Bush' campaign website blocks accesses from outside the USA. Mike Nachbaur has just posted a simple mod_perl Handler that makes it easy to set up a simple gateway. If you are in the US, and feel that people outside should at least be able to see what Bush says on his website, please consider configuring a gateway and post your URL in a comment. The Bush campaign recently cited "security reasons" for the block, but it is very hard to see any valid such concerns.

Eh, well, not quite, but for some reason, his website seems to be blocked from outside the US, and Netcraft reports this. Guess it isn't important for most voters, but a really annoying thing for those of us who are outside the US, is that the guy wants to be a World Leader, yet, I can't vote him down. I absolutely refuse to recognize anyone as leader unless I can elect him. As such, it is welcome that the Netcraft confirms, GWBush is dying. :-)

What's the reason? I get a 403, and if I traceroute, it stops nearby, and I really can't see any other reason than administrative prohibition. Akamai isn't usually incompetent, it has to be a campaign decision.

I guess the journal is useful for posting my rejected submissions. This was just rejected, but there is a place for it here, so here goes:

Cory Doctorow reports a "massive victory" at a meeting in The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)! So far, the WIPO has advocated only stronger and stronger Intellectual Property regulations, such as the the treaty leading to DMCA, the broadcast flag, and was easily lobbied to kill a meeting on open exchange of ideas.

The tide has turned. Successfully advocated by Jamie Love and brought to the table by Brazil and Argentina, the WIPO finally realizes that there must always be a balance.

Well, it seems like my entries in the journals accept comments only for a short time, like the stories of /. themselves.

So, if somebody would like to help me with the problems I cite in my journal, please drop me a note at kjetikj@astro.uio.no. :-)

I've got Mozilla 1.1 on my Debian Woody system, and I've set the file association for text/html to mozilla -remote openURL(%u,new-tab) & and it works, if not quite perfect.

Now, I'd like to go the other way, I'd like Mozilla to use the file associations defined in KDE. Anybody know how to do that?