Want to scream

I'm trying to start a blog to help with my beginning freelance career.
Unfortunately I'm in China, and the government is paranoid.
So all the sites like blogger, wordpress, and most of the popular ones are either automatically restricted, or take so long to verify they time out. THe proxy servers I've used so far restrict a lot of my access to the good sites as well.
I've wasted the entire day looking for alternate alternate blogging sites that may work, with no luck. Either had to spend more money then I wanted, the alternates were restricted or I hated the layout.
So now I'm downloading a proxy server directly to my computer that may work. And its not installing very well.
Sorry just needed to vent.
I'm going to bang my head against the desk now.

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Thanks for the replies everyone. Fortunately I have good news, the proxy server I downloaded works. I'm looking at my blogs that I had given up for dead right now.
So if anyone has any problems with government firewalls or restrictions use this proxy: Surfbouncer. It costs a fee, but it works, and its fairly cheap.

veinglory said:

You used to be able to use blogger ftp in China. Then blogger decided to "deprecate" (stop providing) the ftp option--thus cutting off all their Chinese users.

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That would have have made my life so much easier.

Oy, yucky. Scream away, we're here to listen. Is it possible to have someone else register for you, then pass you the username and password? Then you don't have to deal with timeout, right?

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That wouldn't have worked with the timeout. The timeout was mostly with Wordpress blogs. So I could go to the Wordpress forums and register, but once I tried to reach the blog page it ended. So no updates, no visuals nothing. I was actually talking with my Mom in Canada last night, and we were thinking about my writing the blog posts, e-mailing them to her, and having her post them. Less than ideal, but to get the ad revenue and blog posting jobs it seemed like the only viable solution. Glad I don't have to do that now.
I'm going to work on my blogs now. Hopefully by tomorrow they'll be good enough to put in my signature.
Cheers.