Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use
an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy. Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore. Google comes back with a message - "Translation from English into English is not supported.". Everything is not lost yet, there is still a way though not as pretty.

You can access this blog, for example, from your mobile or from your web browser using this url:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com

The result is plain jane but usable. It can be used in countries with access restriction to certain sites as well as from universities with access to content.