Comments on: Blog update

By: Kevin Sam

Kevin Sam — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:24:52 +0000

Congrats ElShaddai. I’ve made the change.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:13:36 +0000

Thanks guys – I’ve fussed with things a bit over the past few days, but it should be stable now and you can get the feed through both the .com and .net addresses. Unless someone can give me a *really* good reason to use FeedBurner, I’m probably done tinkering under the hood.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:55:14 +0000

.com for life! I’ve made your change, and I’ve got one myself (gregwillson.com).

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:08:40 +0000

The feed seems to be OK now. And the comment box, at least if this comment comes out as two paragraphs.

Thanks for your hard work!

By: Peter M. Lopez

Peter M. Lopez — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:47:25 +0000

Done. Congrats! That’s a nice find. As a dot-commer myself, I’m happy for you. FYI, Google reader picked up on the change without any effort on my part at all.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:56:24 +0000

So you have gone commercial, then? That’s what .com is supposed to mean.

*sigh* Yes, .com is the formal TLD for commercial endeavors, but surely in 2008, the functional definition is for all manner of “communication”. And I am definitely not an “Internet Service Provider”, as the .net TLD might have suggested. The lack of foresight to create a TLD early on for personal use, more generic and memorable than the recent .name and .info TLDs, has created a lack of elbow room for many sites.

On a personal level, I find it ironic that the owners of “elshaddai.com” are expressly a “non-profit organization”, while the owners of “elshaddai.org” are an educational institution and the owner of “elshaddai.edu” is unknown as that TLD is a private registry. Registering “elshaddai.name” would be against the intended use of that TLD.

Until this rich text comment plugin can fix that issue it should not be used.

Given its inability to parse HTML code in entered text and render it correctly, I was coming to much the same conclusion. I’ve disabled it and will continue looking for a non-Ajax solution.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:20:13 +0000

Also confusion over paragraph breaks in my previous comment. There was supposed to be one between “mean.” and “Still”, I left a blank line in the comment box. Until this rich text comment plugin can fix that issue it should not be used.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:19:17 +0000

Peter – I just subscribed to “heissufficient.com/feed/” through Google and it picked up the feed just fine, with content and links working appropriately. I suspect it just took a bit of time for the change to propagate.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:46:40 +0000

So you have gone commercial, then? That’s what .com is supposed to mean.

Still confusion over your feeds. Yesterday I subscribed in Bloglines to http://heissufficient.net/feed/ (to replace a subscription to heissufficient.wordpress.com) which at least worked although for some reason I don’t get a proper link to the site’s main page. Today I have subscribed to http://heissufficient.com/feed/, which is apparently a working feed with a correct link to the main page but it is empty. I suspect some of your settings have got confused.

By: ...paul

...paul — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:47:26 +0000

Good change ElShaddai; com is still by far the best tld to own. Blogroll updated.