internet - Slowly, very slowly getting back to normal

This morning I suddenly realized that I was looking again at non-China websites and weblogs again: connectivity is slowly getting back to normal, although the speed is still very low. Fortunately, these days there are many other things to keep me distracted from the internet, although I see that others did not take it that easy.
Shanghaiist showed a USD 250 way to solve the problem, while the China Daily reported on the boring days MSN-users in China have had. Have had, since the systems seems to be working since yesterday again.
Not sure if I'm going to share with you the many items I have saved in my Google Reader (Google maintained its stellar performance, at least for me.) What seems interesting a few days ago might not be in a few days. In any way: best wishes for 2007 if I cannot meet you in person anymore.