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I don’t know what I did wrong but I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and everything still works. Download WordPress 2.2 distribution and read instructions. Upload tar archive to Bluehost using pscp. Run manual database backup using AutoMySQLBackup. Deactivate all plugins. $ cp -rv blog blog-213 $ rm -fr blog $ tar zxvf ~/wordpress-2.2.tar.gz $ mv wordpress blog Overlay contents of original wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes directories. Reactivate all plugins (apart from widgets) which is now in core....

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Like most newly born WordPress.com bloggers, I keenly played with all the features and tirelessly experimented with the rich variety of horrendous 1, 2 and 3 column themes. Then, I left home and bought a domain name from a geezer in the pub. The downward spiral continues into self-hosting and mixing with the wrong crowd. Inevitably, I stayed up late, dabbled in alcohol and drugs while installing every single plugin and widget ever created for WordPress....

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Yahoo! kindly chose to close my Flickr! account because it was associated with an additional email and not my primary Yahoo Id. I contacted support in an effort to resurrect my Flickr account but to no avail. So, goodbye Flickr and hello Picasa. To get things underway, I proudly present a couple of poor quality camera phone shots from my recent stays in anonymous and overpriced hotels in Cardiff and Oxford respectively....

Just 10 weeks after closing, Performancing Metrics has risen again, phoenix-like, from the ashes. I didn’t use the previous incarnation of this statistics package as I had a hosted WordPress blog which didn’t support Javascript. When I migrated to my own WordPress blog, I used Google Analytics which is perfect for my purposes (and free) but I couldn’t resist installing the new version of the new statistics package from Performancing Metrics....

Until 30 minutes ago, this blog was running Wordpress 2.1 courtesy of the Fantastico installation at Bluehost. The blog was fairly stable and worked fine. However, I was investigating upgrading to WordPress 2.1.2 to plug a security issue. The Fantastico Installer currently only offers an upgrade to the flawed 2.1.1 release. In any case, the Fantastico installer now refuses to upgrade my WordPress installation because I have installed new themes, configured additional plug-ins and even added database tables to the schema....

From a posting in the Google Reader newsgroup I have (approx) 383,240 feeds…

Dear Reader My cruel owner got very excited last night when he went to play with his rotating tagline. Instead of his precious blog, much to his surprise, he was presented with this. His reaction to this mundane error was startling. At last ! Look, blog, look at this. 18 months and I’ve finally done it. At last ! We’ve been dugg ! Why did it take them so long to catch on ?...

Another thing on my todo list was to learn PHP and write a WordPress plugin to randomly select quotes stored in the database to rotate the tagline. An admin interface to create, modify and delete quotes was planned for Version 2.1 (beta) due Q4 2008. Fortunately for me though, a helpful person called Zombie Robot (pseudonym ?) has already produced wp-quotes (and another kind person tweaked it to work properly for taglines)....