Debian Unstable，装上OpenOffice.org 2.0.2之后，发现界面上中文同英文全部纠缠在一起，在邮件列表上有朋友推荐了多种方法，均未解决。今天突然想起字体配置，里面有一段抄来的强制把Bitstream字体同宋体配合使用的设计，原来就是这一段造成OOo计算字体几何数据出了问题。有可能把中文字当成一个英文来算宽度，就导致菜单后的快捷字母压到了前面的中文身上。



其他可能的原因有，安装了OOo-gnome，卸之有可能解决；有人说把界面字体的Anti-alias关掉即可；或者删除个人目录下的.openoffice.org2目录。

To be honest, I am not familiar with hotel in Shanghai at all - I never, ever stayed in any of the hotels, because I live here. Unfortunately, hotel recommendation is the most frequently asked question. I helped to arrange my friend and his family in Yangtze Hotel yesterday. Today, his feedback to the hotel is really good. So I feel safe to recommend it to my readers. Name Yangtze Hotel 扬子饭店 Yangtze is named after the Yangtze River -...

快毕业前被拉回实验室做了个spring讲座。其实好久没深入研究过spring了，好多概念都记不太清，又没充分时间做准备，就顺势粘贴了好多了的PPT，聊以凑数。
由于实验室里水平参差不齐，这个讲座真是难讲死了，听到后来好多人昏昏欲睡，不过也有几个人说挺有收获的。
反正这几天又没写blog，就把讲座的MP3和PPT拉出来凑凑数。感觉自己听自己的声音都怪怪的，不管了，是骡子是马，大家自己看吧。
下面是下载地址： http://ccnt.zju.edu.cn/lectures/xcc_spring.rar

This week's most talked-about book hasn't come out in print yet. Yu Hua, whose first part of the novel Brothers was a bestseller last summer, serialized several sections of the second part on his blog at Sina ahead of the novel's official release on Sunday. Yu Hua's been criticized for not spending enough time on his blog, and for throwing up older, previously published material to avoid letting it go entirely to seed. The appearance of three chapters of his new book lend credence to his earlier excuses that he was simply too busy working on his writing to blog.

Apart from his personal blog, the second part of Brothers also appears in issues 2 and 3 of Harvest magazine, and it will be serialized on Sina's Book Channel. In answer to several questions posed by people commenting on his blog, Yu Hua said that the three chapters he posted were the most pleasant parts of the new volume; the fortunes of the main characters go rapidly downhill from there.

Turning to popular books in print, we find familiar faces on the bestseller list. Net writer Annie Baby has Padma (#2), emoticon-happy Gwiyeoni has the third book in the Outsider series, and Dan Brown's Deception Point (#4) joins The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Digital Fortress in a Chinese edition. The only other new title on the list this week is Peking Duck Restaurant (#8) by director Gu Rong. A copy of this book could not be found for this article, but it appears to be an adaptation of the 1990 film starring Chen Baoguo and Ge You that told the story of the Quanjude restaurant.

The eclectic scholar Zhang Zhongxing has two books on the academic bestseller list this week. In a fortunate coincidence or an astonishingly rapid display of marketing opportunism, Zhang's works appeared on bookshelves in new editions shortly after he passed away in February. Sharp eyes will notice Qi Gong's calligraphy on the title of this and other volumes in the series (see Danwei's earlier article).

The two books by Zhang on the academic list this week are Zen Outside of Zen (#3) and On Accordance with Nature (#4). The second one was conceived during the cultural revolution and worked on intermittently in the succeeding decades before being published in 1993. Kicking off from the first words of the Doctrine of the Mean: "The will of heaven is called 'nature.' Accordance with nature is called the 'way,'" On Accordance with Nature lays out Zhang's interpretation of how best to live. His day-job was working as an editor for the People's Education Press putting out textbooks and other educational materials. His own writings carried that same popular flavor (this reviewer recommends in particular his writings on wenyan).

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The academic bestseller list for the week of 03/10--03/16:

1. Ancient China in Transition by Cho-yun Hsu. Subtitled "Social movement during the Spring & Autumn and Warring States periods," this is a translation of the 1965 book by the peripatetic prof. Hsu. The Chinese title is Outline History of Ancient Chinese Society. (许倬云, 《中国古代社会史论》)
2. Private Life under Socialism by Dr. Yunxiang Yan. The UCLA professor's survery of "Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village" from 1949 to 1999. The Chinese version is titled The Transformation of Private Life. (阎云翔, 《私人生活的变革》)
3. Zen Outside of Zen by Zhang Zhongxing. (张中行, 《禅外说禅》)
4. On Accordance with Nature by Zhang Zhongxing. (张中行, 《顺生论》)
5. The Chinese: Idea and Action by Wen Chongyi and Xiao Xinhuang. (文崇一,萧新煌, 《中国人：观念与行为》)
6. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber. (马克斯, 《新教伦理与资本主义精神》)
7. Nationality and Development by Wen Jun. "Strategies for pursuing the new modernization." (温军, 《民族与发展》)
8. Rule of Law and Democratic Superstition by Pan Wei. The Peking University professor's essay collection came out in Hong Kong in 2003. His essays are available online at his PKU site. (潘维, 《法制与民主迷信》)
9. Crossroads by Zhang Jingping. Zhang writes for Window on the South magazine. This book, published in 2004, looks back at the events of the 12 months from March 2003 through March 2004, and how they determine China's future. His newest book, published in January of this year, is called Democracy in Zhejiang (浙江发生了什么：转轨时期的民主生活). (章敬平, 《拐点》)
10. Peasant Life In China by Fei Xiaotong. Chinese translation of the classic 1939 text by China's most famous anthropologist. (费孝通, 《江村经济——中国农民的生活》)

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The overall bestseller list for the week of 03/10--03/16:

1. (1) Impression by Fu Biao and Zhang Qiufang. A memoir by beloved actor Fu Biao and his wife. Fu passed away last year after a long illness; this book came out on Valentine's Day and was snapped up by fans. (傅彪,张秋芳, 《印记》)
2. (-) Padma by Annie Baby. (安妮宝贝, 《莲花》)
3. (-) Outsider 3 by Gwiyeoni. Earlier article on Danwei. (可爱淘, 《局外人3》)
4. (-) Deception Point by Dan Brown. (丹·布朗, 《骗局》)
5. (4) Detail is the Key of Success by Wang Zhongqui. Business-related self-help book which has expanded into a lecture series available on VCD. The English title on the most common pirated version, ironically, is misspelled. (汪中求,《细节决定成败》)
6. (7) Be Your Personal Best by Li Kaifu: motivational book and DVD by Google's new China head. (李开复, 《做最好有自己》)
7. (3) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. (丹·布郎,《达·芬奇密码》)
8. (-) Peking Duck Restaurant by Gu Rong. (古榕《老店·全聚德》)
9. (2) Tibetan Mastiff by Yang Zhijun. Another "Way of the Animal" book. See brief note here. (杨 志军, 《藏獒》)
10. (5) Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong: The long-running bestseller, set to be made into a movie. English translation forthcoming. (姜戎,《狼图腾》)

Bestseller rankings are taken from the Friday Book Review section in The Beijing News, which compiles its data from the city's major online and brick & mortar bookstores.

为了加快抓取速度，专业的搜索引擎大部分有DNS缓存：但是搜索引擎多长时间更新一次，3月4日的时候cnblog.org进行了一次IP切换。旧服务器上的日志并没有停止：数据统计如下。

搜索引擎网站的机器人 (前 10)   -   全部列出   -   最近参观日期 	 
35 个机器人*	文件数	字节	最近参观日期
Sina Iask	2509	38.61 M字节	2006年 三月 09日 18:32
OutfoxBot	838	9.81 M字节	2006年 三月 15日 02:31
Yahoo Slurp	419+66	6.09 M字节	2006年 三月 19日 21:38
BaiDuSpider	137+36	2.17 M字节	2006年 三月 18日 06:31
Googlebot	147+2	1.74 M字节	2006年 三月 11日 19:03
Unknown robot (identified by 'crawl')	130+1	1.56 M字节	2006年 三月 18日 13:33
Turn It In	93	236.54 K字节	2006年 三月 04日 01:33
MSNBot	80+7	1.52 M字节	2006年 三月 04日 04:37
BecomeBot	77+2	920.27 K字节	2006年 三月 04日 13:37
Bloglines	71	43.51 K字节	2006年 三月 04日 04:08

Idea Factory China 邮件类表中在讨论ping的机制还是爬虫的机制，哪个更好。很好的话题。

我的想法是，当一件事情有赖于多于一个人的努力才能成功的话，他成功的可能性就小很多。

比如，写blog,就算全世界都不写，我也可以写，并且感染别人，所以blog能火爆。（blog是草，大众Wiki是鹰）

做Ping,需要发的人要支持，收的人也要支持，这种分布的方式的唯一问题是，你需要很多人的协作。不是每个人都愿意协作的，圣经里的通天塔Babel就是一种努力。这就形成了网络外部性－－就像一个对讲机没有用，多个才有用处。

网络外部性的东西（email, TCP/IP协议，MSN Messenger，电话）必然需要强大的外因（或者极好的运气），才可形成，但一旦形成，就会病毒性复制。

这个就像核反应堆。谁有能力击破第一个原子，以后的事情就不用你管了。这个点，有人叫做引爆点（tipping point），有人叫做临界点（Critical Mass）。

所以，搜索引擎不需要被爬的网站的配合，就可以工作，所以成功。如果依赖于别人的ping, 就像有了C2C的交易平台，却没有那足够市场经费（这是一种办法），或者经过几年的积累（这是另外一种做法）轰击原子核，很难达到Critical mass。这个和技术无关无关了。

感谢于敦德的翻译整理，目前大部分网站也就做到了4吧，真正的难点在于一个集中的中枢管理和分布式引擎的结合。

豆瓣全部使用python开发。网站后台的搜索引擎基于Twisted, GUI基于Quixote.　还用到了cElementTree, MySQLdb和 PIL.　除了这些豆瓣基本是从头开发(一个人四、五个月)完成。

搜索引擎	搜索力指数	排名升降	份额
1. Baidu	177987842		64.11%
2. Google	34279702		12.35%
3. 3721	27748970		10.00%
4. Yahoo	24811582		8.94%
5. Sogou	5472594		1.97%
6. QQ	1986342		0.72%
7. China	1656058		0.60%
8. iAsk	1548750		0.56%
9. 163	1304226		0.47%
10. Zhongsou	515126		0.19%
11. Tom	313482		0.11%

给人感觉，在 BSP 后 blog 的第二轮掘金潮可能是 Blog Network。国外有 weblogs inc.，9rules，b5media，federated media，等等。最后一个的成员太牛了，包括：43folders，google blogosphere，boingboing，digg等等。 国...