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<description>&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond"&gt;Garamond&lt;/a&gt; font. This website uses it. Here&amp;#x2019;s how:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;@font-face {
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}&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, if you have a font called &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Garamond&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://garamond.org/"&gt;Garamond No. 8&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/"&gt;EB Garamond&lt;/a&gt; installed, then the web page will use it. Garamond No. 8 is what I use on my GNU/Linux system. If you don&amp;#x2019;t have any of them, it will download the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/EB+Garamond"&gt;EB Garamond files from Google Web Fonts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope it works. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:28:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Reader Alternative</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://googlereader.blogspot.ch/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html"&gt;Google Reader is being axed&lt;/a&gt;. I used it every day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/104323674441008487802/posts/QiM9eNQWqq6"&gt;Evan Prodromou says on Google+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Why, it&amp;#x2019;s almost as if it would be in your best interest to run network services under your own control instead of using quote-unquote free ones run by someone whose priorities are not aligned with yours.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;I might consider it. Years ago, I used &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/"&gt;rss2email&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148"&gt;Aaron Swartz&lt;/a&gt;. The irony is that I&amp;#x2019;ll be reading my blog posts&amp;#x2014;in Gmail! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/dead.png" alt="X(" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are other alternatives. Here&amp;#x2019;s &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://list.ly/list/33u-google-reader-alternatives-crowdsourced-list"&gt;a crowdsourced list&lt;/a&gt;. I see that &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://theoldreader.com/"&gt;The Old Reader&lt;/a&gt;, for example. &amp;#x201c;It&amp;#x2019;s just like the old Google reader, only better.&amp;#x201d; Here&amp;#x2019;s a warning sign, however: &amp;#x201c;We&amp;#x2019;re in beta right now [&amp;#x2026;]&amp;#x201d; Will it cost money eventually? How much? I&amp;#x2019;m not opposed to paying a little money. After all, I want the service to have a future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://twitter.com/kensanata/status/280977381953519617"&gt;Me on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;I read a rant once saying: &amp;#x201c;Please, services on the Internet, take my money! I want you to have a decent business plan!&amp;#x201d;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, run a network service under my own control, or pay somebody else&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for running something under my own control, I must confess that I&amp;#x2019;m still averse to running PHP and MySQL on a server of mine. Somehow I keep thinking of the combination as insecure. I downloaded &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://tt-rss.org/index.html"&gt;Tiny Tiny RSS&lt;/a&gt; and looked at it (also &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS"&gt;on GitHub&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is also something about RSS that makes me cringe: If every blog reader installs a feed aggregator that checks its feeds every ten minutes, this won&amp;#x2019;t scale. A few central aggregators that poll feeds and serve their user interface &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;when requested by users&lt;/em&gt; seems like a better solution from a technical point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On my portable devices I&amp;#x2019;m using the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://reederapp.com/"&gt;Reeder&lt;/a&gt; app. Like many others, it depends on Google Reader. We&amp;#x2019;ll see what its creator will switch to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:06:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Domain</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m slowly, very slowly, preparing for the separation of Emacs Wiki and my own web presence (this site). Where as Emacs Wiki runs on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wiki.thinkmo.de/"&gt;ThinkMo.de&lt;/a&gt; in Germany with excellent uptime costing $20/month, most of my other projects run on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.epfarms.org/"&gt;Eggplant Farms&lt;/a&gt; in the United States. All the old links should still work—I&amp;#x2019;m a strong believer in &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html"&gt;Cool URIs don’t change&lt;/a&gt;. Just don&amp;#x2019;t be surprised if you&amp;#x2019;re being redirected from emacswiki.org/alex to &lt;b&gt;alexschroeder.ch&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you spot anything that doesn&amp;#x2019;t work: broken links, missing icons, error messages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:45:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Security of Code Downloaded from Online Sources</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;In the anonymous rant &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wrttn.in/3afc42"&gt;The Wikemacs Experiment: 300 Days Later&lt;/a&gt;, the author claims &amp;#x201c;The biggest problem is that it is &lt;em&gt;insecure&lt;/em&gt;. [&amp;#x2026;] Anyone can edit any of the pages that contain Elisp code.&amp;#x201d; The same sentiment was expressed by Alex Bennée &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/108153044872779739189/posts/gEGU19BrouD"&gt;in a comment on Google+&lt;/a&gt;: &amp;#x201c;What is really needed is a way to be sure that the source for the emacs extension your updating hasn&amp;#x2019;t been subverted by someone else with ill intent.&amp;#x201d;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I said:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; Experiences and ideas of &amp;#x201c;what is really necessary&amp;#x201d; vary. As for myself, I&amp;#x2019;ve installed code from all over the Internet without reviewing the source. Installing it from a gist or git repo is hardly a different experience. If you want to figure out whether a source is trustworthy, you do the usual things: do people link to the code, how long has it been around, what about recent checkins, that sort of thing. Or you get into the crypto business of signing releases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could of course say that every day that passes without a problem increases our false sense of security&amp;#x2026; I have no answer to that. All I can say is that if security is your problem, using gists and github is not the solution (as you say yourself). The source of the insecurity is our habits, our culture of downloading and installing anything and everything. I&amp;#x2019;m not sure how you&amp;#x2019;ll ever make sure &amp;#x201c;that the source for the emacs extension your updating hasn&amp;#x2019;t been subverted by someone else with ill intent.&amp;#x201d; That seems pretty impossible to me unless you limit yourself to the core Emacs distribution (and even that&amp;#x2019;s not a guarantee).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;People on the  &lt;a class="inter EmacsWiki outside" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsChannel"&gt;#emacs  channel&lt;/a&gt; keep asking &amp;#x201c;is there way to do X&amp;#x201d; and thus my impression is that &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;finding&lt;/em&gt; stuff is a more pressing problem. I feel that encouraging people to create a page on the wiki saying &amp;#x201c;here is code to help you do something&amp;#x201d; is the solution to that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But then again, I guess we all differ in what we consider to be the most pressing problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alex Bennée the correctly points out that using &amp;#x201c;a user locked solution like a gist or git repo you can at least be assured what you&amp;#x2019;re installing has come through one person who you&amp;#x2019;ve trusted to a degree before.&amp;#x201d; I guess that&amp;#x2019;s true. We&amp;#x2019;ll see whether people start switching over to using gists instead of editing wiki pages. I said in an earlier comment:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; I added gist support [&amp;#x2026;] because it was easy to do, not because it will encourage existing authors to move their elisp code on wiki pages to github. If at all, it might encourage future elisp authors to transclude a gist&amp;#x2026; But then again, there&amp;#x2019;s nothing preventing them from linking to a gist right now. Perhaps it&amp;#x2019;s also a generational thing. People that have been living without github and gists don&amp;#x2019;t feel a particular need to start using it.﻿ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting times. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Security"&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Security"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Wiki"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Wiki"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:58:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Online Photos</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;In 2012, I basically took pictures using &lt;b&gt;Instagram&lt;/b&gt;, shared them with &lt;b&gt;Facebook&lt;/b&gt; (part of the family), &lt;b&gt;Twitter&lt;/b&gt; (another part of the family), &lt;b&gt;Flickr&lt;/b&gt; (my favorite), and I used &lt;b&gt;IFTTT&lt;/b&gt; to send a copy to &lt;b&gt;Picasa Web&lt;/b&gt; because I felt that I&amp;#x2019;d like to have some pictures for people to see on &lt;strong&gt;Google+&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But then, when &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121218/11131721427/everyones-up-arms-over-instagrams-terms-service-they-didnt-read-first-place.shtml"&gt;Instagram changed its terms of service&lt;/a&gt; (they &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121218/15010921430/instagram-wait-wait-thats-not-what-we-meant.shtml"&gt;rephrased them somewhat&lt;/a&gt;) and I decided that I might want to look into using something else for a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I liked the new Flickr app somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried organizing my pictures on Picasa Web but was unable to create a new empty album in order to move some of my pictures in the Scrapbook album. When I selected more than 300 of the pictures and tried to move them, it also told me I could not move more than 100 at a time. I was confused. It looked like the user interface could use some improvements. I even started up my local Picasa copy and wasn&amp;#x2019;t clear on how to use it to manage my albums online. Perhaps you can&amp;#x2019;t. I was not impressed. It looks as if I&amp;#x2019;m not going to abandon iPhoto any time soon. Then again, I really want to abandon iPhoto one of these days because I hate it&amp;#x2019;s opaque storage regime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, the lens or the protective plastic cover of my iPhone camera is scratched. The photos from the main camera now all look hazy. The terrible quality had resulted in me taking a lot of self-portraits from the second camera.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since I didn&amp;#x2019;t want to use Instagram too often, I have uploaded the pictures to Flickr directly. This means that I haven&amp;#x2019;t posted any pictures to Facebook; I haven&amp;#x2019;t posted any pictures to Twitter, and none where uploaded to Picasa Web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strangely enough it doesn&amp;#x2019;t bother me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it bothers me a bit because I&amp;#x2019;ve been using simple photos of my daily life as a replacement for status updates for my family and friends. We&amp;#x2019;ll see. Perhaps I&amp;#x2019;ll post status updates again. Or I&amp;#x2019;ll abandon Facebook. Or resume the use of Instagram.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8361623336/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8361623336_2a0c20b3ac_m.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8361623336_2a0c20b3ac_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8349494004/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8046/8349494004_a65d7c1f1e_n.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8046/8349494004_a65d7c1f1e_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8344704179/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8498/8344704179_37787e214f_m.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8498/8344704179_37787e214f_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8324968293/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8082/8324968293_acd56ba786_n.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8082/8324968293_acd56ba786_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Pictures"&gt;Pictures&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Pictures"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>External Fonts for SVG Files</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I was writing &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/halberdsnhelmets"&gt;a Perl CGI&lt;/a&gt; script that takes a SVG file I created with Inkscape, replaces a few placeholders and serves it via the web. How to supply this SVG file with an external &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType"&gt;TrueType&lt;/a&gt; font?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Upload the font&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http" href="http://campaignwiki.org/Purisa.ttf"&gt;http://campaignwiki.org/Purisa.ttf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Add an appropriate MIME type&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; in the directory where the font file is, register an appropriate MIME type in your .htaccess file:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;AddType application/x-font-ttf        .ttf&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are creating a new &lt;code&gt;.htaccess&lt;/code&gt; file, remember it needs a permission like &lt;code&gt;-rw-r--r--&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Add an external style sheet to the SVG file&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; it is not obvious how to do this in Inkscape. I guess you can open the XML Editor and add an svg:style element. I just pasted the following into the beginning of my SVG file:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;  &amp;lt;style
     type="text/css"&amp;gt;
      @font-face {
          font-family: 'Purisa';
          src: local('Purisa'),
               url('/Purisa.ttf') format('truetype');
      }
  &amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Care about Internet Explorer?&lt;/b&gt; I don&amp;#x2019;t have access to IE at the moment. I read that you might need to add an &lt;code&gt;.eot&lt;/code&gt; file to &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.bitvolution.com/using-the-purisa-light-font-on-a-website"&gt;support IE&lt;/a&gt;, and that would also require &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7415640/correct-apache-addtype-directives-for-font-mime-types"&gt;another MIME type&lt;/a&gt; to be added. You can convert a &lt;code&gt;.ttf&lt;/code&gt; font to an &lt;code&gt;.eot&lt;/code&gt; font &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.kirsle.net/wizards/ttf2eot.cgi"&gt;using ttf2eot on the web&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;If you want to get started with Google+, here is what I would suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go on Google+ and work on your profile: add a picture of yourself and mention the topics you are interested in. Surround keywords with &lt;code&gt;*asteriskes*&lt;/code&gt; to make them &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;. You might say, for example: &amp;#x201c;I&amp;#x2019;m a gamer and love to talk about table-top role-playing games (&lt;b&gt;RPG&lt;/b&gt;) such as classic D&amp;amp;D from the eighties and computer role-playing games for the Xbox (&lt;b&gt;CRPG&lt;/b&gt;) like Skyrim.&amp;#x201d;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a circle for every topic you are interested in. You might create a circle called RPG and another circle called CRPG, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Write a post for each circle. For example, write a short post explaining how you got into role-playing games and share it with your RPG circle; write a short post talking about your current Skyrim character and share it with your CRPG circle.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Find a &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;shared circle&lt;/em&gt; with people relevant to your interest. Add them all to your circle. (This only works on a desktop computer. As far as I know, the Google+ mobile clients don&amp;#x2019;t allow you to do this.) This is where the first few steps pay off: as these people get notified of you circling them, they might check your profile and your posts, trying to figure out which circle to add you to. If your profile is empty and you don&amp;#x2019;t have any posts up they won&amp;#x2019;t circle you back and you won&amp;#x2019;t be seeing their posts in your stream unless they post publically! Examples include the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107726962705736524877/posts/4r1qAW1g4qM"&gt;6d6 Fireball circle&lt;/a&gt; (found &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://6d6fireball.com/rpg/google-rpgs-are-you-missing-out/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/109800248650045926499/posts/4uWXBvWe81k"&gt;Harald’s circle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post comments, +1 the ones you like, check out the profiles of people making interesting comments, check out the profiles of people leaving a +1 on your posts and comments and keep adding them to your circles if you like what you see.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;When posting, try to keep the posts on topic and share them with the appropriate circles only. Check out &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/106393478695568433143/posts/K2mCT7cSboj"&gt;this flow chart about sharing on Google+&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x2019;ll find that Google adds &amp;#x201c;What&amp;#x2019;s Hot&amp;#x201d; items to your stream. This sucks! Somewhere in the vicinity of these posts you&amp;#x2019;ll find a way to adjust how many of these posts you&amp;#x2019;ll find in your stream. Setting the slider to &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; worked for me. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/blink.png" alt=";)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Much later, you might want to install Chrome and check out the &amp;#x201c;Uncircle Uncircles&amp;#x201d; and &amp;#x201c;Uncircle Inactives&amp;#x201d; add-ons to prune your circles again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have a web cam hooked up to your computer, look out for &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://constantcon.blogspot.ch/"&gt;ConstantCon&lt;/a&gt; games via Google+ if that is your thing (it&amp;#x2019;s not for me).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Campaign Wikis</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Recently Calithena of &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.fightonmagazine.com/"&gt;Fight On&lt;/a&gt; asked on Dragonsfoot: &lt;a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&amp;amp;t=55049" class="url http"&gt;Do any of you have your campaigns on line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I said:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/YmirsCall/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Ymir’s Call&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; I play every other Monday evening in a &lt;b&gt;Barbarians of Lemuria&lt;/b&gt; campaign with DM Florian. Last session we switched to &lt;b&gt;Crypts &amp;amp; Things&lt;/b&gt;. German campaign wiki. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/HagfishTavern/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Hagfish Tavern&lt;/a&gt; was the &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; adventure path &lt;b&gt;Rise of the Runelords&lt;/b&gt; we played before Ymir&amp;#x2019;s Call. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/KurobanoAndTheDragons/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Kurobano And The Dragons&lt;/a&gt; was the &lt;b&gt;M20&lt;/b&gt; game that switched to &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; before we started Hagfish Tavern. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TheAlderKing/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;The Alder King&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; I run a &lt;b&gt;Solar System&lt;/b&gt; game set in the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Wilderlands of High Fantasy&lt;/em&gt; on two Sunday afternoons a month, in German. This campaign used &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; and English before we switched to Solar System RPG. Right now it&amp;#x2019;s on a short hiatus as we give the &lt;b&gt;Great Pendragon Campaign&lt;/b&gt; a try for two or three sessions. I&amp;#x2019;ve heard one player mumble that maybe we should try it for a bit longer, though. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DurgansFlyingCircus/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Durgan’s Flying Circus&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; I play in a monthly &lt;b&gt;Harp&lt;/b&gt; game with GM Stefan on another Sunday each month. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DesertRaiders/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Desert Raiders&lt;/a&gt; was the &lt;b&gt;Pathfinder RPG&lt;/b&gt; adventure path &lt;b&gt;Legacy of Fire&lt;/b&gt; we played before Durgan’s Flying Circus. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/GoldenLanterns/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;The Golden Lanterns&lt;/a&gt; was the &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; adventure path &lt;b&gt;Shackled City&lt;/b&gt; we played before Desert Raiders. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/F%C3%BCnfWinde/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Fünf Winde&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#x2013; I run a &lt;b&gt;Labyrinth Lord&lt;/b&gt; game set in the &lt;b&gt;Wilderlands of High Fantasy&lt;/b&gt; on one Tuesday each month. I used to run two separate groups in the same campaign area, but ended up merging the two groups because one of the two kept shrinking. Both in German. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Wilderlande/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Wilderlande&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; I run a &lt;b&gt;Labyrinth Lord&lt;/b&gt; campaign set in a &lt;b&gt;Points of Light&lt;/b&gt; campaign setting for my best friend and his three kids for two hours on a Friday evening every month. Also in German. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LiedVomEis/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Lied vom Eis&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;b&gt;Song of Ice and Fire RPG&lt;/b&gt; campaign I used to play in; mostly in German. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DieReiseNachRh%C3%BBn/HomePage" class="url http"&gt;Die Reise nach Rhûn&lt;/a&gt; was a &lt;b&gt;Rolemaster&lt;/b&gt; campaign in Middle Earth that switched to &lt;b&gt;Legends of Middle Earth&lt;/b&gt; we played before Lied vom Eis. German. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x2019;s more… There must be at least two short &lt;b&gt;Burning Wheel&lt;/b&gt; campaigns on that site (&lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/BurningSix/HomePage"&gt;Burning Six&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Krythos/HomePage"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Krythos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). And a &lt;b&gt;Mongoose Traveller&lt;/b&gt; game that switched to &lt;b&gt;Diaspora&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Kaylash/HomePage"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Kaylash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). And a wiki I used for my DM notes when running the Kurobano campaign (&lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Attaxa/HomePage"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Attaxa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). And a &lt;b&gt;Forgotten Realms&lt;/b&gt; campaign using &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/SohnDesSchwarzenMarlin/HomePage"&gt;Sohn des schwarzen Marlin&lt;/a&gt;). And another &lt;b&gt;D&amp;amp;D 3.5&lt;/b&gt; sandbox (&lt;a class="inter Campaign" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Grenzmarken/HomePage"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Grenzmarken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I totally recommend keeping notes online! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/grin.png" alt=":D" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(I run the &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.campaignwiki.org/"&gt;Campaign Wiki&lt;/a&gt; site which explains why I&amp;#x2019;m so enthusiastic about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Wiki"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Wiki"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:58:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Network Traffic</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Back &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-10-15_Network_Traffic"&gt;in 2009 I wondered about network traffic&lt;/a&gt;. Decided to take another look. Yesterday&amp;#x2019;s log file via &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/bot-analyze"&gt;bot-analyze&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;aschroeder@thinkmo:~$ bot-analyze &amp;lt; logs/access.log.1 | head
    ----------------------------Bandwidth-------Hits-------Actions
                     Everybody      2177M     113317
                      All Bots       274M      16154   100%     9%
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                www.google.com     92390K       5542    34%     2%
                    yandex.com     63545K       3954    24%     9%
                           bot     33803K       2309    14%     1%
                superfeedr.com     31740K       1091     6%    63%
                  www.bing.com     14161K        525     3%     4%
                    ahrefs.com      9251K        465     2%     2%&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m surprised &amp;#x2013; bots are responsible for 14% of all my hits. That&amp;#x2019;s better than &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Comments_on_2009-10-15_Network_Traffic"&gt;what I saw in 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The way I have set up my web pages, bots should not crawl &amp;#x201c;actions&amp;#x201d; (URLS containing the &lt;code&gt;action&lt;/code&gt; parameter) &amp;#x2013; and yet 9% of them do it, and superfeedr does it most of all. I should investigate, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Wiki"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Wiki"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>What I'd like to see from artists</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/2785476126/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3126/2785476126_78e60abf4f_m.jpg" alt="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3126/2785476126_78e60abf4f_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was reading Stefan Poag&amp;#x2019;s post &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://stefanpoag.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/do-i-know-how-to-be-a-famous-artist/"&gt;Do I know how to be a famous artist?&lt;/a&gt; He lists some questions he thinks artists should answer for themselves. The question &amp;#x201c;How to make sure that anyone who’s interested in your art is able to buy something, regardless of how little or how much they have to spend&amp;#x201d; reminded me of something&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to see is &lt;strong&gt;a simple, semi-automated process&lt;/strong&gt; on artists&amp;#x2019; websites. Artists would post cool pictures and they&amp;#x2019;d all include the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;a link to a nice resolution picture (not quite fit for printing but fit for the web, eg. 600x600)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?PayPal"&gt;PayPal&lt;/a&gt; or Flattr or whatever button saying &amp;#x201c;&lt;strong&gt;license this&lt;/strong&gt; for $5&amp;#x201d; (or $2 or $10, whatever you find will result in sales)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a link to a license saying that paying the amount grants me &lt;b&gt;unlimited, non-exclusive rights&lt;/b&gt; to use and distribute it in digital form (or in any form, or print for an additional $5?) for commercial use or for non-commercial use with the requirement to link back to the page where I pressed the button (so that others can license it as well)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel that&amp;#x2019;d be better than a tipping jar but still not as convoluted as the usual process. There is no email exchange required. I don&amp;#x2019;t get to decide anything about the piece – but perhaps some people will approach the artist with adaptations they&amp;#x2019;d like to see, in which case you do your usual sales process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x2019;t know whether this would have led to a ton of sales, but I&amp;#x2019;m sure I would have spent maybe $10 or $20 on little stuff like that; things I can use on my blog, on my campaign wikis, submit to Fight On! (where upon I&amp;#x2019;d maybe pay the little extra required for a print product).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think as a small artist it&amp;#x2019;s important to not waste money with a lawyer. Keep it short and simple. You won&amp;#x2019;t be going to court anyway &amp;#x2013; if people are not going to pay then that&amp;#x2019;s &amp;#x201c;shrinkage" on the web or whatever you want to call it. But give those people who &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to buy something small an option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you think it&amp;#x2019;d work?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center"&gt;&amp;#x262f;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/sets/72157618394102137/"&gt;my own lousy drawings&lt;/a&gt;, they&amp;#x2019;re available for free because I wouldn&amp;#x2019;t pay for them myself. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Copyright"&gt;Copyright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Copyright"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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