I was looking up domain names yesterday, and I noticed thripp.com became available. Someone was saving it with some ads before, but didn’t renew. I swooped it up and redirected it to richardxthripp.com/richardxthripp. But then after an hour or so I was thinking… isn’t thripp.com a better name for the site? It’s short, brandable, and doesn’t seem like a last name at all (not that that’s bad). I picked richardxthripp.com to make the site personable and unique, but thripp.com is even cooler.

Also, I’d grown accustomed to subdirectories for users, even though I originally wanted virtual subdomains but Netfirms wouldn’t …

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The thing called your dashboard is the main page of the administrative section. When you’re logged in with your thripp.com account, you can click “Site Admin” in the sidebar to get to it (or “Dashboard” in the header, if you’re browsing your blog). Starting today, if you go there and scroll down, you’ll see the latest posts on this development blog, and my latest articles on personal development. See all the interesting developments that are going on?

Before, they defaults were the stock Wordpress feeds, which are of little use …

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thripp.com has been down for a day, but it’s back now. My apologies to everyone who couldn’t get here, especially my members. My web host has been giving my a lot of trouble, but I blogged about it at Brilliant Photography (my site on the thripp.com network). Here’s a copy of that post:

Hi everyone. The website’s been down for the last 18 hours, since 7:30 A.M. (EDT) this morning, but I’m back now. I discovered it when I awoke at 2 P.M. (I’m happily unemployed), and immediately began trouble-shooting. It wasn’t on my end at all; it

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Brilliant Photography by Richard X. Thripp is my blog going back to December of 2007. It was separate from thripp.com till today. But no more.

I’ve moved it over here; all the old posts, comments, tags, categories, features, etc., completely. So you can tell, and I can tell myself, that I’m really dedicated to this thripp.com thing. I wrote the extensive post you see below: Everything Old is New Again. And you can expect to be seeing my latest posts in the sidebar, and I’ll be popping up in the latest comments, the blog list (second up …

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