Currently, you contact details such as phone number, fax number, address and email will be displayed whenever somebody perform WHOIS on your domain unless of course if you have bought the domain privacy service. It is a bloody requirement that ICANN request from whoever purchasing the domains (except for the .CA domains).
I am totally clueless why in the world ICANN post every details of the domain owner on the WHOIS record. I do not mind my email address from appearing there but clearly not my every other details such as addresses and phone number. So the only solution, buy a domain privacy service at around $10 to prevent my details from appearing. It should be a FREE service available to all the domain owners with option to switch on/off the listing of details.
Although lots of people talk about online privacy now a day (especially on Google and all the various social network), not many has voiced out about the domain privacy.
Yesterday, I ranted on Twitter regarding 9rules feeds. Every feeds that come from 9rules only have title without any excerpt about the post and it is sometimes a pain in the ass for lazy bum like me to open up the link from my RSS reader (especially when I am on iPhone) to view the article.
To my surprise, somebody from 9rules (Tyme White) actually picked up my twit and blogged about it with a reply to why 9rules does not enable summary for the feeds. The points that Tyme mentioned are logical but I still think it is a ploy by 9rules to get readers to actually visit the site instead of just browsing the articles with feed readers.
Regarding excerpt, site like mine offer full article via feeds (both image and text) so I do not think an excerpt is necessary.
Well, it has been ages since I last blogged here. Although I want to keep up with everything including managing my project, blogging and theme development, I seldom has enough time!
But for those who are waiting for updates on Diana, I will be bringing in pretty soon (probably around the same time with launch of WordPress 2.7 Beta). I am doing total overhaul for the them including major tweaks on layout, design element and even color scheme. Of course as I promised before, out-of-box support for several popular as well some of my favorite WP Plugins will be included as well.
An alpha version of overhauled theme will be released in a few days time. So cross your fingers and wait for it.
