It took over a year, but i have FINALLY federated my WordPress blog. Mostly it was my Cloudfront settings that were keeping it from working. i rekajiggered the caching into what we have now. you can now follow or comment from within the federated Internet.
My blog is now distributed with Amazon’s Cloudfront CDN using powerful encryption and signed by a proper CA certificate. See the shiny green lock? Like a grown-up adult website. After only 8.5 years. Congratulations! Thank you StartSSL!
Update: you may have noticed that the transition has been a bit bumpy. Still getting the hang of things and this website needs a lot of work (possibly a complete resurfacing). I am sorry about the downtime and all the SSL errors, I am working on it. Thanks Eric, I hope I didn’t step on your birthday plans kidnapping your brain.