Tor and privoxy is the best solution I’ve come up with thus far. I don’t generally use it to be “annonymous”, but rather just as a way to have undisrupted access to the internet – these days, just to check my e-mail (as Hotmail is again blocked).

My mom sent me a link to a Toronto Star article about a new technology being developed that seems pretty interesting.

As for the jogging/water drinking… the jogging has been put on hold. After listening to the advice of a friend who is a trained health teacher, I’m going to take things a bit slower than I had initially wanted to. I’m going to develop good eating/drinking habits first and get moderate exercise (walks at night, etc.) then I’m going to work in the jogging thing. Hopefully doing it this way will not give a shock to my system and cause me to relapse and give up on the whole thing.

Derek

P.S. How’s the jogging/water drinking goin?

My website is hosted by Dreamhost, who allow email forwarding to multiple addresses. So I forward my emails to a Gmail account but don’t read them there, just on my web domain. Therefore if my website gets blocked, which is extremely unlikely, I can always hop over to Gmail (unlikely they are both blocked at the same time). A trusty friend overseas can always help by relaying a message too. Gmail allows email forwarding, so that could work in reverse too: read at Gmail but forward somewhere else. Don’t know about Hotmail’s options, never used it.

Tor is a great program, but not _completely_ anomymous. Privoxy helps, but that is not _completely_ anonymous either. As for completely anonymous internets, I’m unwilling to use something like fr33n3t (replace the three with e) on moral grounds that it hosts material which I have no access to and is likely to draw an adverse selection of people interested in such material.

Alex