Its my first week in China and I’m already having trouble with the powers that be. Facebook is blocked by the Great Firewall of China. No more trouncing my non-journalist (and journalist) friends in Scrabulous. No pithy status updates. Its true that I have found proxy servers that let me use some of the Facebook features, so I continue the soft surveillance of my friends and see new photos of my little cousin. But still, this is an annoyance.