SOPA and domain transfer

When I bought this domain several years ago I bought it from GoDaddy. They have never been the best domain registrar, but they are a large and well-established company with really good prices.

As many of you already know they support SOPA. SOPA is short for Stop Online Piracy Act and is a proposed law that is supposed to help fight piracy. There are many problems with the bill, but the biggest problem is that it is vaguely written and can be used for censorship.

Stop SOPA

To show how unhappy I am with GoDaddy I have decided to vote with my wallet. I have just initiated the transfer of this domain to Loopia, a Swedish domain registrar where I have several other domains. The transfer will take a few weeks to complete.

First Post

Welcome to the First Postâ„¢ of this website! I have owned this domain since 2006 but I haven’t used it for a couple of years. The plan is to host my public projects here and write about web and software development. I have another website where I blog in Swedish about life in general and sports in particular.

The first project I will host here is a WordPress theme that I call Size Matters. It is a slightly modified version of Twenty Eleven with less whitespace and a few other minor changes.

I have also developed a WordPress plugin called Social Metadata. It inserts metadata in the header of posts and pages to make your site appear exactly like YOU want it to when shared/liked on social networks such as Facebook and Google+.

Another possible project is a lightweight WordPress plugin for social bookmarking & sharing. I’m using AddToAny on a few websites I manage but it has a lot of overhead and the layout of the buttons looks bad, especially when viewed on a small screen. If I cannot find a better plugin I might write one myself.