You are not powerless.
Anyhow, good news: "But after an outcry on electronic bulletin boards devoted to the game and threats by some devoted players to leave the game, the company backtracked."
And some locals to me: An attempted block of all MSU web pages, except that they list off a string of servers no longer serving web pages! (I guess maybe I am on the block list, in a way.) byers.egr.msu.edu. I don't know why this one is blocked in particular.
Toast.net, an ISP provider.
Some highlights: Marshall University Personal Web Pages (Violence Nudity, Sexual Acts/Text) Beats me what this got whacked for.
Some comments on my development experience.
Hmmm... some notes: Weblogs.com doesn't seem to update the XML files I'm pulling from as often as it 'should'; as I look at this, changes.xml is one hour behind the Weblogs.com home page. Also, the sidebar only seems to update once, when you start the browser. I am uploading a new data file every hour, so if anybody can tell me how to cause it to pull new data when you look at it, I'd be much obliged... (I've got some stuff I'll try...)
Inspired by Edd Dumbill's Fooling with XUL story.
It's not perfect but it's a start: In honor of Netscape's long-awaited (by me, anyhow) Preview Release, I've created Weblogs.com-in-a-box. If you are using some incarnation of Mozilla, try this: Put Weblogs.com in your Sidebar.