19:29 Kung Pao Chicken » English - The Real Deal

推荐一篇文章:宫保鸡丁—— 美剧,中餐,英语

本人一向不爱说教,今天就破个例吧:请大家向文章作者学习!这种注意积累的方法的确对学英语非常有帮助。要是你也这么留心自己看过的东西,你的英语会在不经意中得到很大提升!

另外,这篇文章的标题写的是“宫保鸡丁”,让我想起了以前经常纠结的一个问题:到底是“宫保”还是“宫爆”?当时还不是google和baidu的年代,没有上网查过。现在时代不同了,很快找到定论:宫爆鸡丁和宫保鸡丁

(See? 就是要从这些小地方多加积累,语言水平才会提高。*说教完毕,逃走。*)

Bonus video: Leona Lewis - Better In Time

15:08 2.5 Sneak Peek » WordPress Development Blog

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.

For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint — we’ve re-thought the look of WordPress, as well as how it’s organized so that you can forget about the software and focus on your own creative pursuits.

Here are a few vignettes of what’s in store.

The Dashboard

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The Dashboard’s most important role is to inform quickly and get you to where you’re headed in the admin. In interviewing users, we found that most of you ignore the Dashboard entirely — its useful information being mostly hidden in an overly complex design. The new Dashboard is focused on the most relevant tasks at hand: a quick summary of what’s published and scheduled for publication, the latest comments and incoming links, blog stats, and WordPress updates and news. You can add your own RSS feeds and edit the way information is presented so that the new Dashboard conforms to the way you use WordPress.

Navigation

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The WordPress navigation has confounded even sophisticated users. With the new design, we’ve cut the number of navigation options in half, separating the primary functions (writing, managing posts and pages, editing the blog’s design, and managing comments) from secondary functions. This presents information at a more comfortable pace, revealing only the information that’s necessary. Everything you need is still there — just better organized. (Especially for people new to WP.)

Write

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By far, the most frequently accessed part of WordPress is the Write screen. It gets the job done, but its myriad options can be overwhelming. The new write screen only displays the information that you’ll use most often. It displays the most common fields in a way that makes posting incredibly easy. Additional options are hidden away until you need them. The new Write screen anticipates the natural flow of the way you write, and is smart enough to remember the way you left it so that your preferred writing environment is always quickly available. The new visual editor even has a handy full-screen mode to help block out distractions while composing your newest post. (My personal favorite new feature.)

Manage

The Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces. We’ve omitted superfluous information and made what’s important faster to find. We believe these changes will make you a faster, more proficient blogger.

You might also notice there are some new colors, the dashboard feels much fresher and lighter. If you’re jonesing for the old look under your user options you can now select the “classic” colors and get those old blues back. (It’s also pluggable so people can easily add or share their own color schemes.)

If you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the new code, download and install Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code.

We’re also interested in feedback on the new interface and would love to hear your opinions, thoughts, rants, raves, and anything in between. We created a special email address just for the occasion: 2.5-feedback@wordpress.org.

The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date. Personally, I can’t wait. :)

13:56 QQDowload 1.7是什么? » Photos from 车东@FlickR

车东@FlickR posted a photo:

QQDowload 1.7是什么?

在日志中找到了不少QQDowload 1.7的超长User Agent

11:23 会议和听众注意力 » Yining.write()

Ian Betteridge

At tech conferences, you have an audience that is largely paying attention to their screens, rather than to what’s happening on stage. This means that the reaction of the audience will be magnified, as the reaction is passed from audience member to audience member in real time.

But the problem with an audience which is live blogging, Twittering, and so on is that it’s not paying attention to what’s happening on stage.

虽然网志年会算不上“tech conference”,但这种现象在往届会场上已经很熟悉了,从台上看下去,满场尽是笔记本。而且去年的会场上的一大特点就是专门有个大屏幕实时更新汇集的短信。不知道如果讲台上也能看到同样的在线反馈,会有怎样的效果。

吸引和保持观众(包括异地在线观众)的注意力,这对组织者和台上的演讲者是个挑战。今年的网志年会也要开始准备筹办工作了,还不知道今年会在哪个城市举办,期待中。

05:27 我与 AdSense的故事 - 我已经参与AdSense计划三年了 » Google AdSense China Blog


看到AdSense征文,我想自己做为AdSense计划多年的参与者,还是应该积极参加的。我是从什么时候参与的这个计划呢?有些想不起来了……登录进入AdSense管理后台,调阅高级报告,看到了,2005年2月8日。

今 天已经是2008年2月29日了,我已经持续的参与这个计划整整三年、1000多个日日夜夜。看着报告中每一天的网页展示次数、点击次数、收入,我一页页的翻动着浏览器,这三个数字是作为一名站长最关心的、也是最能够体现站长付出的,这些数字曾经折磨着我、困惑着我、也鼓舞着我,在日复一日的坚持之后,我的网站上广告的总展示次数已经即将突破两千万次!

从小到大,我从没想过自己会执着的去做什么,然而就是在这不知不觉的AdSense 计划中,我竟然做出了如此巨大的一个数字。这个数字在成功的站长、商业化的网站看来也许并不算什么,然而对于我个人而言,这个数字的背后所蕴藏的不仅仅是AdSense计划带给我的收入,这个计划还让我持之以恒的学 习技术、关注互联网、诚信做人。

曾经,技术的积累使我获得了越来越多的流量与收入,我渐渐的偏离了最初的兴趣,开始萌生了邪恶的想法。那个时期正是国内中小规模站长飞速发展的时期,和我一样经历的站长也开始了各种evil的做法,正是在这样的环境下,中国的互联网广告市场表现出了其薄弱的一面。

Google 为了确保其广告平台的纯净,开始了大规模的反作弊清查、快速的防止了破窗效应的产生。这个反作弊过程在站长圈子里引起了轩然大波,我还开始紧张起了自己宝贵的AdSense帐号,每天是不是都要看看电子邮件、看看后台。终于在一天清晨,我也收到了AdSense的警告信,于是我马上进行了内容调整,确保自己的网站符合AdSense的计划政策。

那之后我更加注重网站内容与站长诚信的话题,因为我知道只有符合游戏规则的参与游戏、才能游戏,虽然遵守规则会有很多的限制,但这毕竟是一个君子游戏,毕竟是一个影响着中国互联网信誉、中国广告市场健康状态的游戏,所以这个游戏的规则必须遵守。

转眼已经三年了,三年来收到过AdSense的警告信、收到过AdSense的用户反馈调查、收到过AdSense的计划政策变更通知,这天又收到了 AdSense征文邮件。喜欢互联网,所以做网站;喜欢做网站,所以参与AdSense计划;喜欢AdSense,所以也要写下我与AdSense三年来的回忆。

最后,祝愿AdSense顺利发展,也希望自己的网站能越做越大,更希望再一个三年之后,还能够看到今天的这篇回忆。
02:20 到底是这网站挂了还是我有问题? » Yining.write()

发现一个有用的网站:Is this website down for everyone or just me,中文就是:到底是这网站挂了还是我有问题。

很明显它只做一件事情,就是当你发现某个网站访问不了或者出故障的时候,可以把网站的地址输入,它会告诉你到底是所有人都访问不了这个网站,还是只有你遇到问题。

当然,同学们,这回复结果就非此即彼的两个答案,一看就知道这网站是吃不上河鲜的人做的,too simple! sometimes naive!

至少要多两个答案:墙内的访问不了;墙外的访问不了。

这个案例告诉我们什么呢,第一,网络产品/服务的本地化不是换换文本和字体这么简单;第二,吃不上河鲜代表不了先进生产力。

最后,希望这网络服务的本地化的国产版本能够早日出来。

更新:

今天的LifeHacker推荐了另外一个类似的手段,使用的是Firefox的Bookmark Keyword的功能结合Network Tools的服务。当然,也可以实现traceroute等。同样的,也可以用相同的办法给http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ 也做一个:

创建一个新bookmark,名字随便,地址为:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/%s

自己想个keyword,比如“justme”,保存,搞定。

比如要想查youtube,在地址栏上直接输入justme www.youtube.com


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