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Upgrades ahoy

Sometime today, I plan to upgrade to WordPress 3.0… and also will probably be moving database servers. Expect glitchy behaviour until further notice.

Edit: Upgrade to WordPress 3.0 complete. I’ll poke around for a bit, but won’t do anything big until the database migration. That is scheduled to begin midnight PST (er… 5pm Sydney), and my host advises that it may take several hours.

Edit 2: Don’t even ask what happened to the theme over the last 30 minutes. After upgrading to 3.0, I was informed that there were updates to the Motion theme, so I unthinkingly pushed that out without realising that my widget settings would be lost. There was a detour. We are now back to a semblance of control.

Edit 3: Database migration is done, and everything checks out. Judging by the confirmation e-mail, it only took 6 minutes, which is pretty awesome. Let me know if something looks pear shaped, but in the meantime, I’m declaring this a success.

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Going social

Don’t mind me, I’m just testing some new plugins. Everything is fine.

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Site update

Recently, reader wystii pointed out that comments were not showing the gaps between paragraphs. I took a quick look through the CSS and found and tweaked the offending code. Hopefully that should sort things out. Thanks, wystii!

While I’m at it, over the next few weeks, I’ll be providing links to a new web video series. It’s about gaming, and a really great initiative. More details soon.

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Jumping on the bandwagon after all

Just quickly. In an effort to stay “hip” and “with it” (despite turning 29 today), I have joined the Twitter crowd.

It’s a nifty little thing that, on the surface, seems to be nothing more than a very limited self-promotion platform. “Microblogging”, it’s called; posting every little minutiae about your life. It’s the Facebook status update, without the Facebook.

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Commenting (part 2)

After a few people made some attempts to use the commenting system (thanks guys!), I’ve decided to keep the CAPTCHA. Overall, people don’t seem to have trouble with it, even if they have to reload it a couple times.

I have, however, relaxed the rules which queue comments for moderation. This was causing confusion for some people, and more time doing admin for me, as I had to approve the comments. Some comments will still be moderated if they look like spam, but that should be pretty rare.

Thanks to everybody who helped out.