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6/14/08 (James): Of Chinese Warlords and Basketball Players
Carolyn of And One, a Cleveland Cavaliers blog on the Cleveland.com website, stumbled across Kongming’s Archives while looking for information on Shawn Kemp. I think LordYuanShu may be the proper party to blame for this. As product of an equally unusual twist of events an interview with me about Kongming’s Archives and the Three Kingdoms community has been published to the blog home page. Have a look! I also enjoyed reading about Basketball Girl.

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5/25/08 (James): Kongming's Hodgepodge of Three Kingdoms Updates
Aside from continued work on several larger projects a number of smaller tasks have been completed over the past half month. A Campaign Overview provided by Mikhail and a Keyboard Shortcut List have been added to the Sango 2 page. Other pages across the site have been revised and some back-end improvements have been made, but I won’t trouble you with those boring details.

I have completely revised the entry page of our Three Kingdoms Links Directory. I didn’t like the way it was organized before and the numbers were confusing (e.g. ‘total links’ was the number of sub-categories added to the number of self-contained links—a pretty useless number). The new page should be very easy to read and use and now also features some of the finest sites right there for easy access. Remember, you are welcome to submit a link to us when you find something worth sharing!

Our Unicode Decimal Entity Encoder has been completely recoded. It is an old tool which we have featured on the site for a very long time, but it has actually become quite popular in some development circles. It converts special characters (and foreign languages) to decimal entity values which can be saved in HTML source code, or pasted into a forum to reliably display any character. The new version is, as far as I can tell, completely bug-free and works quite smoothly.

I have started working on a new revision of Destiny of an Emperor 2.0. With majority thanks to Niahak we have discovered new ways to hack the game and add features so I am now integrating some of them. If you wish to participate in the beta testing or follow development, read the latest posts in the Destiny of an Emperor 2.0 Discussion Thread at Scholars of Shen Zhou. When complete it will, of course, be announced here, and I will also be resuming my Cao Cao-themed remake!

While working on Destiny of an Emperor 2.0 I have also added new content to our Destiny of an Emperor Section. You can reference our Destiny of an Emperor Gameplay FAQ to find common problems and solutions while you play through the game. Our Open Treasures Glitch article specifically addresses the most infamous glitch of this classic title and offers a solution which is definitely preferable to starting a new game. And finally, I have published a respectable collection of Game Genie Codes, including some very cool codes which were nearly impossible to find previously, for you to cheat your heart out with while playing.

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5/15/08 (James): Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia v. 2.0
I’d like to introduce the Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia Project v. 2.0! While nothing terribly new has been added in terms of content (aside from the regular updates being made through each week) the encyclopedia has been made much easier to use. Instead of displaying all search results as biographies, an idea that became excessive as content was expanded, search results are now displayed in a simple reference table (e.g. Kingdom of Wei) featuring links to full encyclopedia entries (e.g. Cao Cao). Matching officers are divided into sub-categories by ruler/kingdom and a color-jump menu provides easy access to the kingdom you wish to view. This is also handy for seeing where officers of a given kingdom came from and went.

The Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia’s home page is special in that it lists only certain popular officers in a single reference table, making it a quick download and ideal for bookmarking. Additional improvements have been made, some visible and others not (I was, for example, able to solve a caching bug that caused trouble not only in the encyclopedia but also in other areas of the site). Some fine-tuning is still required, but that will come with time. I’m just glad to have finally been able to publish these improvements. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Please contact us if you have something on your mind!

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