posted on April 25, 2008
guff is now running WordPress 2.5.1. Woo. Hoo.
One problem this time around: the upgrade script rewrites a blog’s .htaccess file. It’s a necessary part of WordPress having pretty permalinks like:
http://guff.szub.net/2007/11/13/damn-it/
instead of the more cryptic:
http://guff.szub.net/?p=1265
though honestly, the latter’s a little faster to type up, being shorter and all. Anyway, due to certain problems last time around (though I really should get to detailing them, eh?), I didn’t know this occurs. And well, sometimes automated rewriting of important files can get munged. Especially when you have a lot of fancy custom hacks hiding in them… Ah, all is now well, and the blog is back up.
More later. Honest this time.
posted on April 1, 2008
(Ok, not the hardest. Let’s say one of the more vexing upgrades.)
Updated guff to WordPress 2.5. And only took 27 hours to do it. Well, 27 hours since I started on the whole gorram updating the blog software thing late Sunday night. Wasn’t at the computer the whole 27 hours. Had to spend some time at that place where they hand me a paycheck every week, regular-like. Also, there was some sleeping. And eating; I’m sure I did a little of that in those 27 hours.
Anyway, 27 hours ago I started upgrading WordPress. About 40 minutes ago things finally were up and running as one would expect. I’ll explain all the details in a follow-up post. But for now, I need to revisit that sleep activity.
(And no, this is not some complicated April Fools’ Day gotcha post…)
posted on March 14, 2008
March 14th is Pi Day. Hey, why not.
Once upon a time (that time being well over 25 years ago), I was able to recite Pi to around fifty digits. These days I’m just happy to recall the first 5-6 without having to look it up. I guess the New Math just doesn’t mesh well with old age…