So I eventually switched over my blog to Mephisto. As I explained in my previous post, I had enough of the Typo madness. I had a brief look at Simplelog as well. It might be a nice alternative if Mephisto gives me problems as well.
I had some problems lately with my domain (jozilla.be). The guys who I registered it with didn’t answer any mails, nor did they answer any phone calls. I was lucky once to speak to someone from support, who told me everything would be taken care off if I deposited another 4 Euro’s to get the domain out of quarantaine. Of course, this didn’t solve anything. My domain is still in quarantaine.
I wish I knew who the CEO of this company (and others) was before I registered my domain with them. It seems he has quite a disputable reputation. The people of the be.comp.internet newsgroup didn’t have a high esteem of him either.
Since you are reading this, I guess you found my new and permanent domain (jozilla.net), which I registered with Site5 for no more than 7 Euro’s.
I’m glad everything is working again. As always, the staff of Site5 was very helpful to resolve any problems I had during the migration.
In the future I will be looking into integrating my blog more into my main homepage. I might also move away from Typo since its instability is quite annoying. Apparantly the original creator of Typo has moved on as well. Mephisto seems promising. If the infrastructure is in place I hope to blog more often, and publish more material about my current research.
Edit: A few days ago, my .be domain was reactivated after all. A little too late however, since I already registered jozilla.net by then.
I updated my FOAF profile today with most of the metadata that is applicable to me. I also added my geographic position (longitude and latitude), which was already listed on my blog and homepage.
If you annotate your website with geographic information, it is possible to view sites near you through the GeoURL initiative. You can for example take a look at websites near this blog (within a range of 30 km).
If you are curious about FOAF and want to create your own profile, it might be good to read Tim Berners-Lee’s advice.
I decided to stop running my blog on Typo SVN and installed Typo 4.0.3, the current stable version.
Everything seems to work fine, except for the fact that it is still running in development mode. I think I’m going to send a mail to the Site5 staff. Fortunately they are very helpful, and quick to respond.
There are still some blog posts in the queue, as always… I hope to finally push some updates through in the next few days.
This blog has been down for a while. Maybe using Typo from trunk wasn’t such a good idea after all.
It might also have been caused by an incompatibility between the Rails version Typo used, and the main installation at this server.
Anyway, the blog is back online. Since there are a lot of things I couldn’t blog about, I will probably post frequent updates in the next couple of weeks.