You might have noticed that Amazon says that it’s almost out of stock, with 4-6 weeks for delivery.
The good news it, it’s going back for a third printing, so the publisher tells me that it should be back in stock soon.
This popped up in a comment thread, and I thought it was a good question to post as an actual post.
All VWs with rules suffer to some degree exploits and avoidances of those rules. Traditionally the people running the VW deal with their troublemakers alone, banning just them. However I’m willing to bet that those abusing one game will do so again in another. Will the time come where separate VW managements share details of those who break their ToS, resulting in “banned in one, banned in all”?
So I once again got a high CPU warning on the site. I go and check the logs, and I find that just querying comments is slow. This is what they told me last week, and I optimized the tables then; I didn’t espect to have problems again so soon.
A quick Google led me to the Codex where I learned that all those comments I marked as spam (many of which are marked automatically) are all still stored.
This quickie step took care of fully 14MB worth of spam comments out of the 25MB comments DB:
DELETE FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_approved` = ‘spam’
I guess this means that the blog can run another year before I need to upgrade hosting!
Yeah, the post over at Electric Sheep is actually about CopyBot, and the meeting that Philip Linden held yesterday. But there were stats dropped, and as we all know, this blog likes stats. 🙂
There are some economic stats there, but by and large, there’s no other worlds to compare them to, so there’s little point in reprinting them as they mostly just come across as breathless numbers. More interesting are the ones that we have a basis for comparison:
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Just a quick bulleted list.
