Testing Great Firewall of China

John Chow just posted a blog entry about his very successful blog being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Well, I decided to go and try it out to see if either this blog or ProductCritic (the main site) was also blocked.

From the results, it looks like ProductCritic is available (yay!) but for some reason this blog is blocked. I've included both images from the test result.

I'm not sure how much I can believe the results because Google Analytics shows that I've been getting hits from within China to this blog. Maybe the analytics data is wrong? Also notice that in the 'available' image, at the bottom, it actually says that the last test was 'blocked'. Something is definitely odd with this test.

It's not that big of a deal to me as access to the main ProductCritic site from China is what is actually important to me.