Further to the post, ‘My keys must be blurred: The state of things’, when Blurred Keys stated boards.ie’s blogs are down, the site seams to be currently setting up a new blog system using what looks to be Wordpress.

Blurred Keys just  received an email detailing how to access our updated blog over there. With a new address http://blogs.boards.ie/[username]… [edit: 'Boards Blog' are some-what working now].

On another note, a news update on TypePad’s homepage tells us the whole of TypePad has been blocked in China. Although this also happened last year, and was resolved, the latest block of the site could possible be a part of the Chinese authorities’ moves to further control the net in the country, with all Chinese websites been made register.

The Shanghai blog ‘Wangjianshuo’s blog’ explains the registration process…

1. Get a user name and choose a password.
2. Enter email address and mobile phone number. It is the first time mobile phone number is required I have experienced though.
3.
Wait a SMS to be sent to my mobile phone and an email to be sent to my
email address. The SMS contains a 8 digit confirmation code, and the
email is the same.
4. Login into the system and enter the two
8-digits number. At this time, I know that someone can reach me by
mobile or email and I cannot say, it is not my mobile.
5.
Enter the required information. It seems all of the information is
required, including: Name, Mobile, Home phone, Home address, Domain
name, Host provider, Organization
7. After I submit all the
information, I should wait until someone review my application and
decide whether to grant me the certificate or not.