Part of the reason I’m not using social media now is that I have found that I am not able to have complete thoughts. Instead < 140 characters gives me a funnel towards emotional comments, and unfounded arguments. Well, I have a secret weapon in my battle for making longer than 5 sentence speech fragments, and its more than Christopher, Nkinkade or Wolfgang countering my sometimes emotional decision making.

My original unfounded comment: “China has the most people living in poverty.”

Here’s how a gift email landed in my inbox:

Per our discussion about population in poverty, the latest is that the government has raised the cap from RMB 1274 per yeary to 2300 RMB per year. by the latest standards, there are 120 million people in poverty in China.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday September 13th, 2011, the nation’s poverty rate rose to 15.1% (46.2 million) in 2010,[2] up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in relative poverty.[3]

The government’s definition of poverty is not tied to an absolute value of how much an individual or family can afford, but is tied to a relative level based on total income received. For example, the poverty level for 2011 was set at $22,350 (total yearly income) for a family of four, which roughly equals RMB 37,995 per person.[4] Most Americans (58.5%) will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75.[5] There remains some controversy over whether the official poverty threshold over- or understates poverty.

China and the US still has vastly different standards about poverty therefore direct comparison of the number of people in poverty aren’t meaningful.

Thanks for the thoughtful research. Time to get with the program REJON!

In early September, Fabricatorz were contracted by Creative Commons to redesign and launch an updated website design in time for the Creative Commons Summit and its fall fundraising campaign. Later we were to roll-out the same theme across their other major websites. That means we had to crank out in a short time a theme that could be simplified, controlled from one set of master files, and change quickly based upon regular direction from CC staff, while making sure everything works well across five web engines: the main wordpress site, civicrm, the cc licensing engine, CC’s Wiki and search.creativecommons.org.

And the above happened after I killed all my sim cards, American phone plan, and turned off all social media notifications.

Now it time to do Marking all over the world. There is little need to print new propaganda unless you need mass market growth, but is that even good?

Muji can’t handle the Marking Revolution!

The US Global Entry program too, just pwnd into a Fabricatorz brochure showing off the four horseman projects of Fabricatorz.

#!/bin/sh
#
# A quick way to rename mailman lists and trust me you aren't going to find
# a better way to do this on ubuntu server
#

OLD="$1"
NEW="$2"

echo $OLD
echo $NEW

/etc/init.d/mailman stop
test -d /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW} && echo '*** That mailing list name already exists. ***' && exit 1

mv /var/lib/mailman/lists/${OLD} /var/lib/mailman/lists/${NEW}
test -d /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${OLD} && mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${OLD} /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}
mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${OLD}.mbox /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox
test -d /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${OLD}.mbox && mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${OLD}.mbox /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${NEW}.mbox && /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch ${NEW} /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${NEW}.mbox

newaliases
/var/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/mailman start
exit 0

I’m still a nerd.

Life is about relationships, increasing the quality of service to those relationships, and generating value to those people around you. If you have a successful growth cycle in the quality of a personal relationship, you continually rinse and repeat the process of improving the service provided to that person, and the relationship improves.

All relationships must grow, or they die. The goal of service to people is to understand some problem one person has, and then provide solutions to that problem. If the person with the problem accepts the solution, some capital is exchanged. This is called business. It is also called friendship.

I keep investing through dire situations until success. There is no fail fast. As long as I have breath, I will keep pushing through what I believe is right and trust my instincts.

Share to earn.

Sharism.

Jon Phillips王力中是Fabricatorz有限责任公司的发起人和开发人员。Fabricatorz是一个全球性的创意产业制作公司，主要致力于创新和商业项目，主要分支机构设在旧金山和北京，客户则包括谷歌、火狐浏览器（谋职网络）、知识共享Creative Commons、现代传播和F2画廊。2010年王力中和Bassel Safadi在新加坡创办了Aiki Lab品牌。Aiki Lab既是骇客空间又是文化中心，位于大马士革。Aiki Framework则是开源的网络软件。此外，Jon Phillips王力中还曾于2002年启动了开源的绘画工具Inkscape，以及于2004年成立了Open Clip Art Library。他曾在旧金山艺术学院教授设计与科技，也于2005至2008年为知识共享Creative Commons建立社群并任商业发展策略专员，并任Status.Net (Identi.ca)的社群总监。2009年他将工作重心转移至中国，与Wolfgang Spraul一起建立了开源的硬件产品Qi气硬件，与艺术家Matt Hope一起建立了LaoBan老板牌音响系统，与Isaac Mao毛向辉和李昕Christopher Adams一起共同运营”分享主义Sharism“项目。

Anyway, I stop now, if you have a problem with a monitor like the 23″ AOC2216Vw, you can create a script like this one I called, fixaoclcd:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Fixes the mode on AOC 2216Vw Monitor. Only tested fedora 15x86_64
#

MODEATTEMPT="1680 1050 60"
if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
    MODEATTEMPT="$1"
fi

OUTPUT=VGA1
if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
    OUTPUT="$2"
fi

GETMODE=`gtf ${MODEATTEMPT} | grep 'Modeline' | sed 's/^  Modeline //'`

MODE=`echo ${GETMODE} | sed 's/^"\(.*\)".*/\1/'`

xrandr --newmode ${GETMODE}
xrandr --addmode ${OUTPUT} \""${MODE}"\"
xrandr --output ${OUTPUT} --mode \""${MODE}"\"

exit 0

Actually on the script above, you can pass a desired modeline and the output you want to change, and this will work for more than just an AOC monitor. I love bash.

I guess I should figure out how to add this modeline to Xorg. How can that be done?

# 1680x1080 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 67.08 kHz; pclk: 151.33 MHz
  Modeline "1680x1080_60.00"  151.33  1680 1784 1968 2256  1080 1081 1084 1118  -HSync +Vsync

I’m back in Beijing! And, I’m doing a lot of the above plotting about next Fabricatorz steps, working hard, and moving many projects forward.

Lots of meetings to be had, and many best friends here to work with.

An aside, I spent the weekend updating project documentation since February 2009. Update bio, full cv, and a monospaced resume are available for consumption.

Its silly to keep a content management system running if its not being used and there instances where clients want a purely statically generated website for SEO and to calm security-paranoid nerves. I started thinking about this more and have been reading a few links. It brought me back to the days of using the old BLD software that Brian McKeever wrote and I ported to work on Linux. I then started journeying down the path of picking static file generator softwares, but honestly its silly IMO to learn yet another markup language, when Fabricatorz are promoting our platform Aiki Framework. In fact, with running a simple wget command, one could build an entire site in a dynamic content management system or framework, and then simply use wget to generate static files to be served.

There are some considerations though before you do this such as:

• turning off login/registration systems
• turn off commenting systems
• making sure that you are not locking yourself out of your house, so to speak, with a robots.txt blocking bots, and the ethical software, wget, which has respect for robots.txt built into it by default.

So, after you fix these up on your dynamic site, this example is the best for converting a site I’ve found:

wget -r -p -k -E -nH -P /srv/www/dev.cantocore.com/public/test cantocore.com

Here it is laid out:

wget -r -p -k -E -nH -P LOCAL_PATH_TO_SAVE_TO SITE_TO_CONVERT

This makes a fully static copy of the cantocore.com site to dev.cantocore.com!

Then, I had to make this addition to .htaccess to make sure that some urls were good for SEO blah:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.1\.html$ $1

That should do you pretty good! Let me know if there are any comments on this!

I learned this from mossiso, stackoverflow question, Matt Wynne, and idlewords.com.

The improvements I see that could be made include the htaccess rules and possibly even a way to compress the pages even further with html tidy or some whitespace stripping commands. What programs from the commandline could be useful to further make this a nice option for both archiving and serving fast static pages?

I just made sense. Put a Z on that!