Yep, I upgraded this ole blog to 2.0 of Wordpress. That is to say I finally got around to upgrading my own blog. I upgraded these others right after the release:
So, time to get the show on the road again after a hiatus that really stretches the possible uses of that word beyond the snapping point.
I spent all of yesterday screwing around (see below) with the computer, the hosting company, kubrick, things like php that I know very little about and wound up with this. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Still lots to do over there, but I feel like my effort is being concentrated and the pay-off should multiply. Isn’t it possible to do everything using WordPress?
At least all the wading through WP Support, Binary Bonsai, and the WPP Wiki, has given me a better notion of what is going on. I trawled through the spam plug-ins and came up with Spam Stopgap Extreme. Let’s hope it works. I got an actual honest-to-god comment the other day that languished because I hadn’t checked my mail to approve it. (Sorry dr Dave).
If you were looking for vensite.org, the website for the Volunteer Educational Network, please try again in a few hours. Sorry for the delay while I fix a small problem.
Indeed, what is blog?
Ryo said:
What’s blog??
Hello!
I am not good at using computer
…and I always fight against a keyboard and monitor.
…I almost hate it.
But I started this blog without any knowledge!
It’s a big challenge for me.
She then went on to blog very well thank you very much: better than your humble narrator has recently.
(more…)
Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Or, in this case, continue blogging. I guess I got started on K5, then used Blosxom, tried my hand at MT very briefly, and have now wandered into WordPress land. Why? The main reason is php. I’ve dabbled in it a very wee bit, but I’ll need to learn more soon. Why double the amount of work I need to do? Any work I do on mastering php will apply equally to Moodle or WordPress.
I must admit that this Movable Type blog thang has been relegated to third, fourth, or even fifth place over the past few weeks. Little things like work, job interviews, and endless volunteer stuff that I get myself into have pushed themselves to the top of the stack.
Oh, and the fact that I couldn’t get the damn archives to work properly kind of put a chill on my willingness to commit bits to phosphor. Yes, I was having trouble with Movable Type. Endlessly scrutinizing permissions, and playing with paths was getting me nowhere. Actually, I just needed about ten minutes with a clear head, and the search field on a support forum to get it sorted. Now I have archives and a reasonable expectation that all my momentous writings will live on forever (or, at least as long as I pay my hosting company, which may bear a substatial similarity to forever). Functional comments are next on the list. Then, look out!
Just in time, as I am off to the Pink Cow in about an hour or so to attend a Tokyo Weblogger meeting. Now I will not have to beg for MT advice, so they will never know what a newb I am. Now I will have an astounding three, count ‘em, three entries on my blog! The fact that only one of them is of any substance at all does not worry me too much at this point, as traffic to this blog is unitary.
Well, enough geek bloggery wankery. Time to pack this up and go, especially as they just announced that the university library will close early because of yet another mega-typhoon.
This is mic number 1
This is mic number 1
This is mic number 1
Isn’t this a lotta fun?
Just testing out this new MT install. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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