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Commentary and processes of J C Lawrence: systems architect, contrarian, theorist, sailor, hacker, virtual world designer, linux-user, aquarist, disquisitor, cat breeder, raconteur, game designer, ludophile, bibliophile, numismatist, speculator and theologiser

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And upon the far horizon in the east

Kanga.nu and its services have been moved to a new host. This marks the final decommissioning of the box I built from parts while working at VA Research. It has been a long time..and it is somewhat sad to see her fade into scrap.

If you notice problems or inconsistencies, please comment below or email me.

Site: OpenID logins are now enabled for commenters

I have enabled OpenID account creation and login support. Now you don’t have to maintain a separate login for this blog in order to post comments!

Enjoy.

Site upgrade

I’m about to start a site-upgrade for WordPress and a few other key packages, moving from WordPress 2.5 (plus a long list of security patches) to WordPress 2.7 (plus a shorter list of security patches). As I hand-wrote the WordPress theme this site uses, and several of the plugins were extensively edited away from their defaults, things may look odd or broken for a while. Please bear with me…

Nurse, I really can’t wait any longer

I’m currently fiddling about with integrating my iPhone, various supplemental iPhone features (eg camera), Twitter, Facebook and this blog. There will be some noise and dust. Patience!

Chrome, comments and this site

One of the Muck & Brass playtesters has been unable to post comments using Google Chrome. I don’t know why as I can’t test here with Chrome as I don’t run Windows on any of my machines. I’ve tested with multiple test accounts under Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, Lynx and W3: all have been able to post comments without trouble.

Comments are moderated in order to trap spam. When you post a comment, the next page should show the original entry and its comment thread. The last comment in the thread should be the one you just submitted, along with an annotation that it is being held for moderation:

Author: Test User | Date: Saturday 21 February 2009 | Time: 11:20

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

This is a test comment.

If you are having trouble posting comments, please email me directly with the details.

Moving categorical confusion

Ooops. I just noticed that one of the side effects of nesting the game-project categories is that the RSS feed URLs for the categories have now changed to represent the nesting. Arghh. Sorry guys. If this is a real problem please comment below and I’ll stick in some Apache rewrite rules to handle it.

Category management

In order to ease managment and overview of the site I’ve created a Game Project category and moved all my design projects under it. Aside from some resultant sorting and nesting of the category list, there’s also now an RSS feed for just my game projects. See the This Category link in the sidebar when viewing the category.

A failure to communicate

The tool I’ve been using to footnote definitions of terms some readers may not know has a problem. It can result in broken RSS and Atom feeds which don’t validate, usually due to non-UTF8 characters in strings which are defined as UTF8 strings. In turn this causes various RSS readers and aggregators (eg Bloglines and Technorati) to fail to import the feed. Ooops.

For now I’ve removed the offending definition linkages (suet(def) and jocund(def)) and am on the lookout for a replacement WordPress plugin, preferably one based on dict1.

Footnotes
  1. I’m a frequent, nay, near-constant user of dict. ↩

Definition: suet

[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Suet \Su"et\, n. [OE. suet, dim. fr. OF. seu, suif, F. suif, L.
   sebum. Cf. Soap, Sebaceous.]
   The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder
   fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which,
   when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
   [1913 Webster]
See also:
[Soap] [Sebaceous]

[2] : WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

suet
    n 1: hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep
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Definition: jocund

[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Jocund \Joc"und\, [L. jocundus, jucundus, orig., helpful, fr.
   juvare to help. See Aid.]
   Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
   [1913 Webster]

         Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
         Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

         Rural sports and jocund strains.         --Prior.
   -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]
See also:
[Aid] [Joc"und*ly] [Joc"und*ness]

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Jocund \Joc"und\, adv.
   Merrily; cheerfully. --Gray.
   [1913 Webster]

[3] : WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

jocund
    adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
           were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
           such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
           the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
           gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
           laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund,
           jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
See also:
[gay] [jocund] [jolly] [jovial] [merry] [mirthful]
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