Matts blog

So I got a call from the NZIS today, in fact I got 2, but the second one is the more important one - My Work Visa has been approved!!!!! It may only be a little piece of paper in my passport but its SO COOL!

What is even more interesting is that the EOI that I lodged in December to be a Skilled Migrant has been selected to be taken further - so I guess they are checking over my form and checking everything, so hopefully I can start the process to residency soon too. All I need now is a job

Theres been an awful lot of discussion in the media about Google and exactly what it is up to in China and having been in Googles offices in China I was in a position to comment. So I started punching various things in to google.com and google.cn, obviously I was doing this from outside the ‘great firewall of China’ as I’m in Australia at present, and would you believe what I found - HUGE differeneces in search results.
You can see from the screenshots below what I mean, this is from searching for ‘tiananmen’ on google images.

http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen


http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

Obviously after having ADSL in China for so long I knew a lot was censored - I couldn’t access news.bbc.co.uk for example, but I kind of got used to firing up a VPN client and accessing websites via the US. I had no idea the differences were quite so big its really quite disturbing.