CollyLogic: Collylogic is dead

Collylogic is dead

22nd November 2006

Yes, collylogic.com is dead. Long live www.colly.com. I’ve been sitting on this domain for two months, since the incredibly generous Shawn over at Darkest Web offered it to me in exchange for a small amount of CSS work (which I still owe him). So folks, it should be easy to remember - it is very similar to www.molly.com, but with a ’C‘ rather than an ’M‘. Easy, and that isn’t all I’ve fixed…

The dark art of the htaccess redirect means that all collylogic.com URLs will seamlessly send people to the corresponding URL here, so no need to amend anything (although RSS feeds may not play nice). I always wanted to be at this address, and it feels just right. As the mighty Super Furries once sang: “This was my domain, ‘til someone stole my name”. Well, nobody stole it, but it is comforting to be where I belong at last.

Also, finally - at last - I have removed the bloody query string from the URLs. This has bugged me for two years (Media Temple‘s DV servers don’t understand path_info apparently, so Expression Engine goes loopy unless you force queries), but thankfully my good friend Steve P Sharpe had the answer The tiniest tweak to the standard EE remove index.php script was all that was needed. Good man, Steve.

So, decent bit of housekeeping dealt with there. Think I’ll kick back for five minutes…

Simon Collison published this on 22/11/06, at 6:55 PM

Comments

Now if I could just wrangle gregbowers.com away from the jazz piano player in vegas… I hate being called Gregory.

22/11 at 19:22 from gb

Even more annoying is when somebody owns your domain and does nothing with it davidhughes.com for example.

It’s just not fair!

22/11 at 20:01 from David Hughes

...and what’s even more annoying is when your beloved domain name is taken by one of those so-called “search engines” whereby you are forwarded to a million different locations which just happen to have paid for advertising space on said ‘search engine.’

www.sticky.com for example… they clearly want someone to purchase it from them… that frustrates me!

22/11 at 20:22 from Sticky

Nice one, welcome to your new home

22/11 at 21:07 from Dave

Congrats on the name change. Unlike manythings in life, shorter is better :)

23/11 at 02:24 from Darrin

Well done mate. This is a perfect domain for you.

23/11 at 09:05 from Simon Campbell

How will collylogic.com be treated? Will it allways remain where it is (Meaning old links will still function as they did before you swapped to your new slick address) or will they have to be changed because collylogic.com will expire anytime soon?

23/11 at 11:41 from Alexander Berglund

Umm, not to spam your entry but I think it’s something wrong with your ip-tracking of where people lives. I for example live in Sweden and not Germany. Maybe something you’d like to check up on when you get time?

23/11 at 11:59 from Alexander Berglund

Alexander: No worries there. I’ll keep Collylogic alive for ever. I think the cost of a domain is minimal for something like this. I have simoncollison.com too, but can’t remember what I’m doing with that!

Anyway, all old links are fine…

23/11 at 12:00 from Simon Collison

Alexander: Achtung! Flags error! That is strange, as I have seen the Swedish flag on here before. I’ll add it to my list - thanks for bringing it to my attention, my German friend (joke).

23/11 at 12:02 from Simon Collison

Bitte! Thought I might report in case it might affect more users than just me… And it is good that you keep both addresses alive… Though I think I will start subscribe from colly.com instead from the logic address.

Heads up comrade!

24/11 at 01:46 from Alexander Berglund

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