More XFN
http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/crawl.php.
If you want to have a look at the pages already there in a nice graphical network display, go to http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/image.php.
This displays 26 random sites and the links between them. If you click on a site it “holds” it so subsequent requests always contain this site (this way you can slowly buildup an image of sites that actually link to each other).]]>
Pretty XFN
Well I decded to write a nice XFN crawler/search engine thingy. The crawler part works. I also decided to do a nice graphical representation of the links between sites.
Red is "crush", blue is "met" and green is "friend" (just three properties I picked at random).
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Google will take over the world…
For those of you who do not believe me and haven't read my previous posts on the matter, check the following:
- maps.google.com
- maps.google.co.uk
- local.google.com
- local.google.co.uk
- video.google.com
- catalogs.google.com
- froogle.google.com
- froogle.google.co.uk
- froogle.google.de
Google Catalogs is possible the most impresive. Although the fact that Google Maps in America now has (completely free) aerial photo data is cool. One funny thing is to go look at the Whitehouse with the mysteriously edited image erasing it completely (not Google’s doing; in their blog they were just as surprised to find it).
Exams soon…
I'm struggling to find something to write. That's not to say I don't have thinks to write as such I'm just not sure I should share them.
Julia's letter hasn't arrived yet...
I'm sure I'll actually say something interesting next time :P]]>
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside…
On a more personal note (since this is marked personal) I'm awaiting a letter from Julia. Apparently there's some stuff in it that would be hard to explain by phone. I'm sure it's not as ominous as it sounds.
Also if you haven't realised there is a link to the first chapter of a story I'm writing called Reactions on the menu to the right. Go on, have a look (unless you are one of the two people who actually read this regularly in which case you’ve already read it).]]>
Users in Galaxia
Well one can now create an account and login. So far it doesn’t give you anything but it does respect users with regards to what object orders you can perform. i.e. you can’t rename objects that aren’t your own.
An idea for Galaxia
I might open on Galaxia at least partially. Nothing fancy like a public CVS, but the generated documentation compelte with annotated source listings. This will obviously impact security of the game once it's available to play but it might be worth it since it opens up lots of possibilities:
- People actually writing stuff for Galaxia. There are lots of places people could write little bits of stuff for me that aren’t hard to do but do take time.
- The very fact that people will be able to see the code will make me write it better and clearer and with better documentation.
- If people are interested I might finally write a tutorial on some MPOG-writing-in-PHP topic which I’ve wanted to do for ages.
Anyway if I by any chance you are reading this and are interested (of course you’re reading this) post a reply…]]>
Stars
But I came up with stars:
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Double map
The disadvantage is you need your display set to 1024x768 for it to work properly but that would have been true anyway since there is still the control frame to displayunder the map that I haven't done yet.
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Reborn progress
Of course the big thing to do is add users to the game since everything I write now needs to be slightly different depending on object ownership.]]>