As a Chinese citizen, I regular browse the Internet through a VPN server in South Korea just so that I can use Google to solve my technical problems. And Gmail. And stackoverflow. And travis-ci. And GitHub Gist. And Rubygems.

I've given up on VPNs...they just seem to be so flaky that after you pay your one year subscription fee, they are then blocked by the government.

I just use Bing (disclosure: MS employee but would like search engine choice).

Red Apricot (Hong Xing) have been working well for almost a year.

It's a Chrome extension. Based on sockets proxy.

Occasionally, it got blocked, but they would recover it in the next day.

Buy a VPS and set up your own VPN. It is much cheaper and less likely to be targeted.

Hi, what's your current project now?

Same as always, working on a grand live programming demo for the end of this summer.