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Blog downtime 博客停机

October 29th, 2008 08年10月29日

Apologies for the downtime — looks like I left some stuff incomplete when I did the Wordpress upgrade.道歉的停机时间-似乎我留下了一些东西不完全时,我的W ordPress的升级。 I think it is fixed now.我认为,现在是固定的。

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Wordpress updated WordPress的更新

October 25th, 2008 2008年一十月25日

We’re running on the newest version of Wordpress now.我们正运行在最新版本的WordPress的现在。

I have also installed WP-Super-Cache in an attempt to reduce those pesky CPU Exceeded errors that keep happening.我还安装可湿性粉剂,超高速缓存 ,以减少这些讨厌的CPU超出错误,使事情。 Supposedly, for anyone who is a logged-in commenter there will be no visible difference.据称,任何人谁是登录的评论将不会有明显的差异。 Leaving a comment will update the cached page immediately.留下意见将更新缓存页面立即。 Keep an eye on the sidebars, though — those may not update instantly, not sure.密切留意sidebars ,但-那些可能无法即时更新,不能确定。

Let me know if you see any problems.让我知道你是否看到任何问题。

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A pic from London 事先知情同意从伦敦

October 12th, 2008 2008年十月12日
London by night, from the London Bridge

London by night, from the London Bridge (click for larger image)伦敦的夜晚,从伦敦桥(点击放大图片)

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How much I walked in London 多少钱我走在伦敦

October 11th, 2008 08年10月11日

I walked around a lot.我走在了很多东西。 All over Clerkenwell (where my hotel was), doing a bit of a tour of locations from Oliver Twist .所有Clerkenwell (在我的酒店) ,这样做有点参观地点雾都孤儿 Over to Covent Garden the day of the unconference.到科芬园当天unconference 。 Past the Barbican on the day of the SXSW party.过去的巴比坎上一天的SXSW党。 And from Tower Hill to the South Bank and all the way across to Westminster Abbey, on the last day.从塔和希尔向南方银行及所有跨越的方式,以威斯敏斯特大教堂,在最后一天。 Along the way I stopped in at The Tower of London, Southwark Cathedral, The Globe, and lots of other interesting locations.一路上我停下来在伦敦塔,南华克大教堂,在全球和许多其他有趣的地方。 I have a kajillion photos, of course, but in the meantime, here’sa quick map of where I walked.我有一个kajillion照片,当然,但在此同时,您介绍一个快速地图在我走。
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The people you meet on planes 人民您满足飞机上

October 10th, 2008 二○○八年10月10日

There I am in the US customs line at LAX, and I notice the girl in front of me, part of a smallish gaggle of young people.有我在美国海关在洛杉矶国际机场线,我看到女孩在我面前,一部分很小的鹅群的年轻人。 She’s got this long dark hair, quite noticeable.她有这个长期深色头发,很引人注目。 Tired looking — hey, it was an 11 hour flight from London — and she’s digging in her bag for her passport, trying to fill out the arrivals card on the fly, and keeps holding up the line.累了期待-嘿,这是一个1 1小时的飞行从伦敦-她在她的挖袋,她的护照,试图填写到达卡的飞行,并保持举行了线。 Something familiar about both her and her boyfriend, who has really startling blue eyes and keeps looking at me strangely because I keep looking at them trying to place them.有关的东西都熟悉她和她的男友,谁真正惊人的蓝眼睛,不断看着我奇怪,因为我继续寻找他们试图把他们。

Then I realize I’m standing next to the stars of High School Musical , Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, and nobody has recognized them.然后我意识到我站在旁边的星级高中音乐 ,雅克• Efron和Vanessa Hudgens ,没有人承认他们。 The two other folks traveling with them are constantly checking their Blackberry, and the conversation is something like “Yeah, when we were in Australia…” After we get through the passport stamping, I tell them quietly how much my kids love their work (didn’t want to cause a big to-do in the line), and they are very gracious despite how tired they are.另外两个人行同他们正在不断检查他们的黑莓,以及谈话是像“是的,当我们在澳大利亚... ”经过我们的护照通过冲压,我悄悄地告诉他们有多少我的孩子们热爱自己的工作(不'不想造成一个大的做的线) ,他们非常热情,尽管他们多么疲惫的。 I end up with the soundtrack stuck in my head the whole rest of the trip…我结束了与配乐停留在我的脑袋整个其余的行程...

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Jeff “Dundee” Freeman 杰夫“邓迪”弗里曼

September 30th, 2008 2008年9月30日

Years ago, when I was a young punk kid on UO, there was this really sharp, really witty, really annoying guy named Dundee on the rgcuo newsgroups.几年前,当我还是一个年轻的朋克对UO的孩子,有这的确锐利,真正机智,真的烦人的家伙命名的邓迪rgcuo新闻。 He challenged everything I said, and I got into epic discussions with him.他质疑我说的一切,我进入史诗与他讨论。 He was an avid opponent of the PvP and PK structure that UO used, and had no patience for all of my endless reasons why it was important to allow player freedom and agency, saying that I was allowing jerks to run roughshod over everyone (and in the end, I came to agree with him).他是一个狂热的对手的外汇交易同步交收和蛋白激酶的结构, UO使用,没有耐心,我的所有原因无穷无尽,重要的是让球员自由和机构,说我是让急跳运行践踏每个人(在最后,我同意他的) 。

His reasoning got more and more sophisticated as we argued.他的推理得到更多和更复杂的,我们主张。 It was clear he was very knowledgeable about games.很显然,他很了解游戏。 So eventually, I dared him.因此,最终,我不敢他。 I don’t recall what it was in regard to, but I suggested that he go grab a mud codebase and just try his ideas.我不记得这是什么方面的,但我建议他去抢占泥代码和公正的审判他的想法。

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AGDC08: Tobold is famous AGDC08 : Tobold是著名

September 17th, 2008 08年9月17号

Margaret Wallace just put up a screenshot of his blog as an illustration of the need to go after bloggers in order to persuade users to come to your site.玛格丽特华莱士只是提出了截图自己的博客作为例子,说明有必要去博客后,以说服用户来您的网站。 : )

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Happy birthday, blog: 10 years 生日快乐,博客: 10年

August 29th, 2008 2008年8月29日

The banner today今天的旗帜

The first posts on the ancestor of this site went up ten years ago today.第一个职位的祖先本网站走到10年前的今天。 The site was dark blue.该网站是深蓝色。 It used this newfangled HTML tag called frames, and I added each post by handcoding the HTML and uploading the file to the server.它用这种新奇的HTML标记称为帧,我说每个职位的handcoding HTML和上传文件到服务器。

I feel old.我觉得岁。 : )

Some of the oldest things on this site date back before the site itself, to when I was a young punk designer of 25 or 26, cocky and arrogantly sure I knew everything.一些最古老的东西在这个网站可追溯到以前的网站本身,当我还是一个年轻的朋克设计师的25或26 ,狂妄自大和肯定,我知道一切。 I turn 37 in a week.我想谈谈37一个星期。 I like to think I’m still a young turk tilting at the windmills.我认为我还是一个年轻的土耳其倾斜的风车。

Ten years ago, I started the site to archive some of the things I was telling the UO community and the LegendMUD community, things about the ways in which online communities can self-determine, things about how virtual worlds can serve as bridges, as ways to connect. 10年前,我开始现场封存的一些事情,我告诉UO社会和LegendMUD社会,事情的方式在线社区可以自行判断,事情如何虚拟世界可以充当桥梁,方式连接。 To talk about how something people see as “mere games” can mean much more.谈论如何人们看到的“纯粹的游戏”可能意味着更多的工作。 I eagerly read everything I could by people like Randy Farmer & Chip Morningstar, Richard Bartle, and other pioneers.本人急切地阅读一切我可以通过这样的人兰迪农民与芯片晨星,理查德巴特尔,和其他先驱者。 I collected aphorisms from mailing lists and gathered them into a reference source.我收集警句从邮寄名单和他们收集到的参考资料。 I tried to share it back, to do my learning in public.我想分享回来,尽我学习的公众。

The previous banner, aka "the pixelly look"以前的横幅,别名“的pixelly期待”

In some ways, the site has become a book — most literally, in the way that A Theory of Fun was born from blog posts and snippets from MUD-Dev, but also in the over half a million words I have written here.在某些方面,该网站已成为一本书-最字面上看,在方式,理论乐趣源自博客帖子和摘录从泥开发,而且在5 0多万字我已经写在这里。

"Wood site #2" -- there was a wood site #1 before that one. “伍德网站# 2 ” -有一个木材网站# 1在此之前,一个。 This is where the knotwork thing came from.这就是knotwork的事情而来。

I thought a good way to celebrate might be to turn things around on you.我想一个好办法,庆祝可能是扭转局面你。 I am pretty sure that there are plenty of folks who haven’t been here that long — given that the site has gained several thousand daily readers in just the last year.我非常相信,有很多人谁没有在这里长期-鉴于该网站已经获得了数千读者每天都在短短的最后一年。 So I thought I would ask some questions and use the anniversary as a chance to point people to some of the older material they might not have read.因此,我认为我要问一些问题,并使用周年为契机,以点的人的一些旧材料,他们可能不会阅读。

So I want to turn it around on you!所以,我希望把它周围的你! I have questions for you!我有问题,你!

I don't seem to have that old art anymore... and there was one design older than ths, all dark blue.

I don't seem to have the old art for wood site #1anymore...我似乎没有艺术的旧木材的网站# 1anymore ... and there was one design older than this, all dark blue.并有一个以上的设计这一点,所有的深蓝色。

I have my favorites and am thinking of showcasing some of them over the next week, but I am curious, because I suspect that to some degree I am better known to many of you for what I have said than what I have done.我有我的最爱,我思想的展示其中一些在未来的一周,但我很好奇,因为我怀疑,在一定程度上我更好地了解许多你我所说的话比我有工作要做。 So many of the things I have done aren’t really there to see anymore, but the things I have written and said are still here, for better or worse.所以许多事情我已经这样做是不是真的有看到了,但事情我已经写信,并表示仍在这里,是好还是坏。 : )

So thanks for coming  on the journey!所以感谢未来的路途上! Here’s to another ten years, another half a million words, and more learning in public.这里的另一个10年,另一个50万的话,更学习在公众。

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Wordpress 2.6 upgrade WordPress的2.6升级

July 15th, 2008 08年7月15号

I am doing an upgrade to Wordpress 2.6, don’t be surprised to see the blog broken for a bit.我所做的升级到WordPress的2.6 ,不要惊讶地看到该博客打破了位。

Later: 后来:

OK, I think it’s done, and there seem to be no adverse effects.好吧,我认为这是做,似乎有没有不利的影响。 During the few minutes that it was defenseless, 7 spams came in.在几分钟的时间,这是手无寸铁的, 7个垃圾邮件进来 : )

And my Visual Editor conked out beforehand — the dreaded “visual editor just doesn’t work” bug that apparently plagues many.和我的视觉编辑conked事先-恼人的“可视化编辑器只是不工作”的错误,显然是困扰许多。 Sigh.叹了口气。 Here’s what fixed it:这里有固定它:

  • The upgrade, at least on my machine, put everything up with the wrong permissions.此次升级,至少在我的机器,把所有东西都放到了错误的权限。 I set the wp_includes folder and all files under to 755.我的wp_includes文件夹和所有文件下到755 。
  • I also deleted the contents of wp-content/uploads/js_cache我还删除的内容wp-content/uploads/js_cache

Apparently there are several things that cause this.显然有一些东西,导致这样的结果。 So here’s some useful threads .因此,这里的一些有用的 线索

Oh, and you need to add captions to your existing theme if you want them styled right on the images.哦,您需要添加字幕到您现有的主题,如果您希望他们风格上的图像。 I found this , though I then started tweaking it.我发现这一点,但我然后开始调整它。 (See below). (见下文) 。

Even later: 即使后来:

All my accented characters were broken, and it’s because the wp-config-sample.php file has utf8 for the DB_CHARSET, but my blog is old enough that all its tables were creates many versions ago when the default was latin1_ci_swedish.我所有的重音字符被打破,这是因为可湿性粉剂配置sample.php档案来做为DB_CHARSET ,但我的博客岁不够,其所有表格创造了许多版本前,当默认的是latin1_ci_swedish 。 There’s no easy way to change the DB, so I fixed it by changing the DB_CHARSET in wp-config to just ”.没有简单的方法来改变数据库,所以我固定它通过改变DB_CHARSET在可湿性粉剂配置公正“ 。

OK, now that caption stuff:确定,现在的标题内容:

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The Reiser Story Ends Reiser故事的结束

July 8th, 2008 2008年七月8日

For those who have been reading the blog for a year and remember The Reiser Story post (which I did after reading a Wired article ), the end of the story has finally come, as Reiser led police to the grave of his murdered wife .对于那些谁已读博客了一年记得Reiser的故事后(我没有读有线条 ) ,故事的结束终于来到了,作为警察Reiser导致的严重,他被杀害的妻子。

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