In case anyone else is out there reading this, the automatic upgrade feature within WordPress will stall if you are using  < php5. The same holds true with trying to auto-upgrade some of the plugins.

I know it’s been really quiet here, but lots of stuff has been happening…. like the Summer – for instance…. and Will’s Birthday… Oh, and my older sister Mel got engaged too….
Those are just the highlights. There were other things that happened, and hopefully I will get around to posting them… or at least, posting more often. We’ll see how that goes.

Not something I’d do everyday, but pretty kewl to have in a pinch…

I downloaded and installed the plugin and very quickly, I was on my way to upgrading (fairly) painlessly to WP-2.7.
The only issue that I had was the plugin dying during the DB backup part. I ended up just manually backing up the DB and skipping that step in the plugin. Everything else was smooth as silk!

The look of the control panel for 2.7 is VERY different to prior versions. I haven’t decided whether or not I like it, but I have been using scribefire to write my posts for so long, that, aside from the occasional comment spam moderation, it has been a while since I’ve had to login to my wp-dashboard. Anyways, I’ll explore around and let you know what I think…

Speaking of which, I have a different theme up… not as “dreary” as the fog theme, but still a little dark. I also don’t like the way the style for any hyperlinks are displayed in this theme – they aren’t underlined and the color for a previously visited link is the same color as the default text. Still contemplating this… I might just bite the bullet and try to create my own whenever I get the time. However, I think I will try to get all the kinks knocked out of my current setup before I do any more theming.

What do you think? Click the comments and let me know….

So… use the comment section to tell me what you think of the changes.

MindMeister is a new mind mapping webapp that lets you share your mind maps with others on the web. It also lets you import and export mind maps to and from Freemind – which I currently use, and Mind Manager.

Thinking Rock is a great piece of software strictly for GTD. I have demoed this before, and liked it, but I felt I needed to use the same system for both Home and Work. The problem is that at work, I use a Gentoo Linux workstation, and at home – until I buy my new PC, I’m still using windows. Luckily, someone in the Gentoo community decided to create an ebuild for Thinking Rock. I will be installing it at work this week and testing it. I’ll let you know how it goes.

On another Note, WordPress now has an official repository for plugins that can be used with their wonderful blogging software. If you have a wordpress blog, you will want to add this to your bookmarks.
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