rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

So, first off, looks like Democrats are taking control of the House and Senate hopefully repealing and changing the current bad state of the United States. Then Rumsfeld resigns his post! What a great day!

I’m also feeling optimistic about the Microsoft/Novell deal now as well, as the complexities of it unfold.

Then, come to find out, one of my areas of major interest, Open Source Cellphones received a major boost with the announcement of the OpenMoko phone and Harold Welte’s involvment. This is great because I will be speaking at a conference in Taiwan in January, so hopefully can connect them up with Creative Commons Taiwan so we can get some properly licensed content onto these phones.

Oh, and to top it all off, tonite is the 10th Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco where the Homebrew Mobile Club, featuring Matthew Hamrick (who works for ACCESS, used to be palmsource) will be presenting about the “Complete Open Phone.”

UPDATE: The good news doesn’t end now that I see this post that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt is calling for making data EXPORT a key strategy and encouraging others to do so, similar to something I wrote in the past. This is so great. I want to work with Google more!

That’s right, don’t miss this week’s CC Salon at http://shinesf.com from 6-9 PM. The line-up is stellar: Homebrew Mobile Club releasing their open source cellphone plans, Flickr.com, Music by the Kleptones, and Annalee Newitz. We are probably going to have 1-2 more speakers added in the next couple of days, as our dec. event is going to be moved to a FRIDAY to celebrate CC’s birthday at a special (free) party.

Oh, to all you ubuntu dev summit goers at google this week, this WED, please come to the city for this event and lets have drinks and talk shop!

I think this will be a good event as well to give out free shirts to people who take footage, video, record audio of the event. Hold me to my word!

Patrick and I have been back and forth sorting out the current status of Wikipedia in China’s status. Thus, after we did some tests, have confirmed that Wikipedia is accessible in English (and probably most languages to appease Olympics 2008 goals), but it is blocked at least at his residential connection in China (in Chinese).

At least he can look up what MSG is, now.

Also, would anyone like to display our project in any upcoming art shows, conferences, etc. Basically, we are getting a server in China that we will use as a reverse proxy so that anyone can test if their site or service works in China. Would anyone be intersted in this? It is actually useful, practically, but on an artistic level, would provide a nice visual account that China is actually blocking some content.

Oh, I call it a reverse proxy, because when traveling in China, one must have their own proxy or external-to-China server to get certain accounts, like my ctyme.com based email for a well known non-profit, and to get to my other illegal content.

Don’t forget, I have documented how to get access to sites outside of any Internet-connected country through ssh tunneling.