08 February 2006 Blog Home : February 2006 : Permalink
This is partly interesting because I thought that the thought police in Saudi Arabia had blocked access to google, but also perhaps a tad worrying because if the SA techies have done their job someone will be having a look at my page and perhaps sending a note to the boys to send someone around to explain things. So if you hear of a terrorist attack on the Riviera or even a mysterious and motiveless attack and also note no more activity on this blog then just possibly the two are linked....
In fact if you look at my page's stat counter in recent days you will see visitors from practically every Muslim nation on earth. This is truly fascinating because, as I said earlier, internet access for most of these countries is carefully regulated so that citizens are unable to download porn or search for inflamatory topics like "christianity". Yet, despite that the cartoon page was visible and indeed, as I discovered with a little log investigation, clearly cached at the firewalls of these countries (I know that because when I made a couple of modifications to the page I suddenly got a spike in 404 errors all of which came from surfers from Arabic lands attempting to access pages that had moved). Furthermore at one point I had a number of visitors referred to my site from sites that appeared to be official news websites in Saudi Arabia (I can't read Arabic so this is mostly just a theory although there was a Riyadh based English language news site whose URL I have subsequently lost)