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Post by The Duchess of Zeon »

An incredible perspective of an Iraqi citizen living in Baghdad who has a Blog. No, I'm not kidding. This guy must be taking an incredible risk just to have the thing up, especially with the image on it:

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
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His site will go down- Iraq only has one ISP apparently. Too bad.
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Vympel wrote:His site will go down- Iraq only has one ISP apparently. Too bad.
It either already has, or the link isn't working; Page not found.
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Eh? I was *JUST* there!
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And it's still working.
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Damn, this is depressing, but informative nonetheless...
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Vympel wrote:And it's still working.
Well something is screwy because it isn't working for me!
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Crown wrote:
Vympel wrote:And it's still working.
Well something is screwy because it isn't working for me!
Hmmm, what does it say? Have you tried hitting Refresh? That's what I did to get it to work...
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Vorlon1701 wrote:Hmmm, what does it say? Have you tried hitting Refresh? That's what I did to get it to work...
Have I tried hitting refresh?! Well to tell the truth no hang on a second...

Nope still not up for me. Oh well somethings are just not meant to be.
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Ah, damn, sorry man :?
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Vorlon1701 wrote:Ah, damn, sorry man :?
Don't be sorry. It's not your fault... or is it? o;O :shock: :wink:
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Crown wrote: Don't be sorry. It's not your fault... or is it? o;O :shock: :wink:
Um.....no comment :shock: :twisted: :D
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Works for me.
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Works for me too.

And it's pretty interesting.
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It works for me, and I think it's a good read, and it tells the war from an Iraqi's perspective.
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Crown wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote:Ah, damn, sorry man :?
Don't be sorry. It's not your fault... or is it? o;O :shock: :wink:
Try a proxy server.

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Crown wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote:Ah, damn, sorry man :?
Don't be sorry. It's not your fault... or is it? o;O :shock: :wink:
Try a proxy server.
So fucking slow...

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Site may very well be slashdotted at the moment.
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works for me. am sending to teachers and friends.
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alright, fine, what the Hell is a Blog?
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Wow, interesting read.
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Lonestar wrote:alright, fine, what the Hell is a Blog?
It's a public journal on the Internet.
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Post by Lonestar »

Thanks. I was having trouble accessing the page...
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very interesting... very interesting.
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Post by phongn »

I'm surprised that the Blogspot is handling the load, it is currently under a slashdotting as it was posted numerous time in their thread on the subject.
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