China has banned this site.
It seems that if you are anyway affiliated with a government site, have been in some form of military service or just in general speak about anything the chinese government doesn't like. They will have your site banned from popular search engines in China. This is a known-known in the net community and is pretty much tolerated for the most part. That said, most of the information posted here is syndicated several places and there have been articles that I have written or published that would allow dissidents to have a voice. This includes ease dropping on fiber optic signals and other things that were at one point heavily linked from Chinese websites and forums. That and the proper way to race your vehicle in the event you planned to do it illegally on regular road ways. The last laced with warning after warning as why doing such a thing is stupid but nonetheless.
Let me preface that I have nothing against China as a country and never have but banning me from Baidu isn't going to stop your citizens from reading my site. So removing it from Baidu's index is not going to be effective enough. My site is syndicated to probably 4 or 5 different places; you'll have to ban all of those (which from the looks of it are fine) and considering I've barely said anything egregious it's just funny to me. I tried to re-add my links to the index and you went even further in removing nearly all links completely in the Baidu index. I'm not sure if this is because of the recent Google tiff or what and i'm not sure how many others you have done this to. In all sincereness, it doesn't even matter. Anyone who reads this site doesn't have to waste time searching baidu or trying to figure out how to punch through your firewall.
What really gets me is that if you are so right, if your ideas are so wholesome and virtuous. If you are doing what is right for China; why would you need a firewall? Wouldn't your values win out by their sheer existence? By the sheer simple truth of what you are saying? So I have a message for the Chinese government.
At the end of this day, this battle against information you seem to be waging will fail. Unless you wall off China from the internet completely... You will simply not win, it's just human nature to search for truth. Good luck.
That said, if you are a citizen, in whatever country you reside, with the freedom to search for truth you should probably not support search engines or internet companies who still operate in China.
PyCurl maintenance
I'll be doing some PyCurl maintenance and preparing for a release sometime in the near future. First initial release will just be cleanups all around so this would be a good time for any concerned party to get me those small patches I've seen floating about. If you are a distro packager with patches you've been applying in your builds that you think should have been upstream, please contact me. I'll try to hunt as much of these down as I can myself, with the help of some interns. As a note my employer NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World has been very gracious in allowing me the time to do so because I don't really have any as it is.
Also, whoever wrote a patch for Python 3.0 support Unfortunately, you posted this patch as anonymous and I will not commit without discussion from the person who wrote it. If I don't see anything I will reimplement Python 3.0 support myself. I'd really hate to have to redo a chunk of the work when a readily acceptable patch may already exist. So please contact me! I'd prefer an email to my kernelcode.com email but sourceforge is ok as a communication method as well.
I also need to update some stale links on the pycurl website and such which I will try to get around to asap. In regards to windows installation of PyCurl i've seen some issues there and will try and duplicate but as I don't readily use Windows on a daily basis it's going to be touch-and-go in a VM for a little bit. If you can explicitly state the problems and issues that you are having there, it will help me immensely in shoring that up.