I just came back form a 3 week vacation in Shanghai. From my Holiday Inn hotel room I was able to access Slashdot, google mail, yahoo mail and cox mail but was not able to access MarshallBrain's main blog
http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/ nor his SadTech Blog
http://sadtech.blogspot.com/.
I was glad to be able to keep up with my e-mail and the state of technology when I was on vacation.