In addition to the previous two posts, I have a few more scattered thoughts to start the week, so I’ll just throw them into one post and follow up later if it warrants greater attention:
- Dave Cruver of To Tell You The Truth linked to my “most important verse” post on Bible translation as part of an article on Jude 5 and the choice between manuscript variants of Ιησους (Jesus) vs Κυριος (Lord) for reading Christ back into the OT. Thanks for the link, Dave!
- I’ve been increasing attentive to posts at the blog Theology for the Masses, especially this one on whether there is Biblical support for a personal relationship with God, this one on the contextual definition of natural sexuality as Paul understood it and this one asking, “what is the word of God?”
- I’ve been playing with the latest release candidate of Firefox 3 and really like what I see and, more importantly, the speed at which I see it.
- At some point in the near future, this blog will be moving off WordPress.com to my own hosted environment. This shouldn’t mean any changes for most of you, but if you still have blogroll links set to “heissufficient.wordpress.com”, this would be a great time to update your URLs to “heissufficient.net”. You’ll know it when I change over…
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Hmm, another update to Firefox. Should be good.
Yes, I’ve been using RC1 over the weekend. Supposedly there’s an RC2 coming this week and the final build of FF3 in mid-June. The speed improvements are definitely noticeable, especially with Gmail.
I know I keep acting as the Ker-Mudgeon here but my experience has been that WordPress.com blogs perform much better than offsite blogs. Downtime is zilch. Everyone who self hosts has a slower loading blog. But if you want plugins I suppose that’s what ya gotta do!
Thanks for the feedback, David. I’ve had to switch Web hosts to support some other non-blog projects, but one of the benefits is lots of SQL database support and one-click WordPress installs. I’ll keep playing around with it and see if I still want to switch…
Thank you for #2. I like those.
I’ve been using FF RC1 since it came out and like it except for it crashes now and then where FF 2 didn’t. Hopefully they’ll fix that.
I haven’t found my own hosted blog to be slower but I haven’t done any tests with a stop watch. I think the benefits outweigh any negatives.
Jeff
Thanks for the comments, Jeff. I would think that any slowness with hosted blogs would depend on the specific host servers and probably isn’t a true generalization with WP.com.
I’ve been doing some custom blog development for a client on Typepad and it makes me appreciate WP more and more everyday.
David noted that: Downtime is zilch.
Unlike our fellow Google/Blogger bloggers who have been without access to their blogs since early this morning. Funniest quote/comment I’ve seen in a while was posted on the Blogger Help Group:
Hopefully our friends will be back online shortly.
I noticed that. I also noticed a problem on a Wordpress blog and thought maybe we need to cast out demons.
I have a great web host that has 99.99% (or something like that) up time so there really is no reason for it to be down. On Wordpress or Blogger you’re relying on their whole system.
Time is money since we’re making so much money on these blogs.
Jeff
Money, yeah… um, sure. My wife keeps asking me when I’m going to make money with the blog since I spent so much time on it…
Thanks for the link back to my site! I have enjoyed your blog for quite some time now.
I definitely like FF RC1- speed is much improved. I’ve also noticed it crashes more on Vista (hmm.. wonder why…? ;)) more than XP.
As for hosting WP, I use 1&1 with 2 WP installs, and MANY Movable Type installs (MT my blogging software of choice) and none of them seem to be slow. WP inherently publishes dynamically which should not tax the server much.
Thanks for stopping by, Dave - please feel free to comment any time!
FF3 has made some nice enhancements - in addition to speed, I especially appreciate them shifting the “save password” buttons to after you’ve logged in to a site. It always bothered me that they were asking before I even knew if my combo was correct or not - it shows a better awareness of user behavior.
I only run XP at home and work, so it’s been pretty solid for me so far. I’m looking forward to RC2 and the final build.
Movable Type is the Typepad equivalent of the WP installed software (vs. WP.com), right? I’ve only worked on the Typepad platform, which seems to be more akin to WP.com, although you pay for it.
Yes. That about sums it up. I can give you access to one of my MT installs if you want to look around a bit and check it out. I think MT is just more solid and more user friendly and intuitive. But then again, it may be that it fits how my mind works
Shoot me an email if you’re interested in taking a peek.
I appreciate the offer - my clients tend to be relative newbies to blogging and prefer the security of having Typepad host everything. I’ve been learning their Advanced Templates and setting up custom ad spots — interesting stuff!