My last post was over two weeks ago. I think I should have something worth blogging about several times a week…what gives? Looking back in my life, there were several times when I started offline journals. I’ve written several serial bulk emails, reports and newsletters, but being a blogger is new for me.
Distraction 1: 2008 Campaign Politics
I don’t want to get into political blogging, but there is so much activity right now. Every time I try to catch up on my RSS feeds, I take off on a tangent relating to November 2008. If it were up to me, we would line up the facts and see where McCain has been telling lies and how Obama will make change…but that is not why I am blogging.
Distraction 2: 2008 Economy
I am a political and finance junkie, but that is not the point of my blogging. I am completely shocked that we just gave AIG $85 million, rescued Fannie and Freddie, blessed Bear Sterns, and still think the Iraq surge was a good investment…but that is not why I am blogging.
Distraction 3: 2008 Me
I have this hangup about sharing things online that cross between personal, social, and work. I am comfortable being genuine in each of these situations, but the cross-over slows me down a bit. Maybe it’s the regulatory oversight shadow I am used to, or it’s something that I will out grow. Either way, my experience and ideas are the basis of my blogging and I will work to clarify the purpose.
The words and ideas here are mine, and I will be transparent in my conversations.
Tagged: blog, blogging on September 16, 2008 by TJ Rutkowski
In Personal Web on July 13, 2008 by TJ Rutkowski Tagged: blog, Flickr, GoDaddy, Picasa, WordPress
GoDaddy.com serves up low-cost registration and hosting very nicely. As part of the offer, they include numerous third-party applications. WordPress, a blogging tool, is one of the applications I tried on my GoDaddy hosting account. GoDaddy includes a simple tool to install WordPress. I used the tool every time I tried WordPress on GoDaddy.
Issue One: No support for blog.tjrutkowski.com
I want blog.tjrutkowski.com to point to my blog, but GoDaddy’s servers do not recognize the WordPress index.php as a home page on a sub-domain. Thus, every attempt to load the blog through the sub-domain fails. Several other GoDaddy customers have been blogging about this issue since 2006, but GoDaddy will not resolve it. It seems that the fix is a simple server setting for GoDaddy, but my fix is to use another provider for my blog.
Issue Two: Poor response
If my only blog problem was the sub-domain, I would have no problem. I simply created a redirect at blog.tjrutkowski.com to my real blog. Last month I pointed it to my Blogger site, but I recently changed to tjsr2.WordPress.com. Thanks to GoDaddy, I tried WordPress and prefer it over Blogger.
My issues is that when GoDaddy hosts my WordPress blog, things break! Using a standard template, custom hearder image, and 3 posts in my blog, and it took 2 minutes for the WordPress site to load from GoDaddy. Often, the connection would simply time out before the page ever loaded. I got the same painfully slow results from my work or friend’s computers.
Soultion: WordPress.org
My solution is to publish my blog directly at WordPress. “WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” So far, it has been fantastic! Thank you WordPress!
If I could ask for one more free feature, it would be for Picasa support. I had to switch to Flickr for simple photo and album integration.
