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
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’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.
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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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。
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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