Daily Archives: January 2, 2008

Are We All Accounted For?

Here we are: the first post-upgrade post!

I had to upgrade both installations in order for it all to work (the separate installation made the basics work but not the categories, while the second install remedied the category issue), but it’s working. There’s an odd ‘not found’ string of characters up there at the top of the page, and I’ll try to ferret out what’s missing and why, but it doesn’t seem to be affecting the journal or the workings of the software that powers it, so all’s well for now.

Any WP users know why this is happening? I know it’s a table in the WP database, but why it wasn’t created/updated in the upgrade, I don’t know. Insights?

I’m freezing.

Onward!

ETA: Never mind, I found out what the problem is. My owly template is based on an outdated Classic template, so I’m going to have to overhaul the theme by hand to bring it up to current specs, file by file… without any idea of what the current specs are. *faceplants on keyboard*

Hmm

Here we are in mid-cleanup… and as I expected, things have gone wonky. Somehow, I have a double installation of WordPress in two different directories, and the software pulls some things from one and some things from the other. I discovered this by deleting one installation (which resulted in no blog at all, so I restored it) and then deleting the other (which has resulted in no style applied to the journal).

Not sure what to do.

This is one of the reasons why I haven’t upgraded before now. Figuring this out is a headache.

(Aha — part of the no-style issue has come from an incomplete re-transfer of files to the second installation. Right; let’s fix that. And… we’re back! Okay; now to figure out how on earth to upgrade two installations, and why I need to, and how to get it down to only one…)

PSA

I’m spending the day doing backups and such. This includes doing an upgrade of WordPress, as I’m running on version *mumbleveryoldmumble* because I’ve been wibbly about messing up another upgrade and replicating the Moveable Type Great MySQL Disaster of October 2005. Therefore, at times the blog may be inaccessible or look a little wonky.

We are currently backing up to two different places to avoid tragedy. Beaks and wingtips inside the journal at all times, please. See you on the other side.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Yeah, the upgrade broke the feeds, and no, nothing I’ve done fixes it, including upgrading again. I’m still blogging several times a day; just click the header image to be taken to the latest posts!

Plain Brown

Dear World:

You all are so funny.

Yes, I bleached my hair to even out the base. Then I put a neutral brown over it. No, I do not have white or blonde hair; I just have a nice even plain brown colour, which I hadn’t had in a while thanks to highlights and touch-ups. (Although I did have very, very red hair for one day.)

If I hadn’t mentioned it, you never would have known.

I know this probably comes as a crushing disappointment, judging from the excited comments left to my 2007 In Review post and private e-mails sent to me. I am very sad to have to pass this information along to you and ruin all your fun.

I will go and do something boring to punish myself, like sweep up the fallen pine needles in the living room.

With regret,

Autumn.