VPN

Never heard of this until I came to China. Now it's 4-5 times a day.
The Chinese government has this thing called the Great Firewall of China that renders google, this blog, BBC unusable. Unless you have a VPN service, which most of the Chinese seem to have. Mine seems to be mostly working now. It's a way of your computer pretending it's somewhere else. Today I'm in England. Sometimes I'm in Japan. Other times I'm in China, but I'm always in the same room.