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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-01-23 16:36:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-01-23 16:36:29 +0000 |
| commit | 3cb47296f37ed397a5cf35618c13785dc52847de (patch) | |
| tree | 17457b33216e783f49d5833f0f290847a28f35d3 /gemfeed | |
| parent | 43fc2ca548c0af05da7eb66e6803895d0d771a3e (diff) | |
Publishing new version
Diffstat (limited to 'gemfeed')
| -rw-r--r-- | gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gemfeed/index.md | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md b/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md index deb29d25..b9e9f090 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ For a while, I was thinking about a better host name for this site, meeting the * Reflects the "nature" of this site. * Is still pretty generic. * Is "cool". -* Is short and pregnant. +* Is short and easy to remember. * Doesn't cost millions. So I think that foo.zone is the perfect match. It's a bit geeky, but so is this site. The meta-syntactic variable relates to computer science and programming, so does this site. Other than that, staying in this sphere, it's a pretty generic name. ## To be in the .zone and not in a .surf club -I was pretty happy finding out that foo.zone was still available for registration. I stumbled across it just yesterday while I was playing around my new authoritative DNS servers. I was actually quite surprised, as usually such short SLDs (second level domains), especially "foo", are all taken already. +I was pretty happy finding out that foo.zone was still available for registration. I stumbled across it just yesterday while I was playing around with my new authoritative DNS servers. I was actually quite surprised as usually such short SLDs (second level domains), especially "foo", are all taken already. -Furthermore, I almost chose "foo.surf" over "foo.zone" as in "surfing this site", but then decided against it as I would have to tell everyone that I am not into water surfing. Well, on the other hand, I now might need to explain to non-programmers that I am not a fan of the rock band "Foo Fighters". But that will be acceptable, as I don't expect "normal" people visiting the foo zone as much anyway. If you reached as far, I have to congratulate you. You are not a normal person. +As a funny bit, I almost chose "foo.surf" over "foo.zone" as in "surfing this site", but then decided against it as I would have to tell everyone that I am not into water sports so much. Well, on the other hand, I now may have to explain to non-programmers that I am not a fan of the rock band "Foo Fighters". But that will be acceptable, as I don't expect "normal" people visiting the foo zone as much anyway. If you reached as far, I have to congratulate you. You are not a normal person. ## What about my old hosts diff --git a/gemfeed/index.md b/gemfeed/index.md index caa7c82b..5b636e0b 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.md +++ b/gemfeed/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Having fun with computers! -[2022-01-23 (0537 words) - Welcome to the foo.zone](./2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md) +[2022-01-23 (0545 words) - Welcome to the foo.zone](./2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md) [2022-01-01 (1139 words) - Bash Golf Part 2](./2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.md) [2021-12-26 (2280 words) - How to stay sane as a DevOps person ](./2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.md) [2021-11-29 (1286 words) - Bash Golf Part 1](./2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md) |