Gnorb.NET

If you’re looking to upgrade your own blog to WordPress 2.0 and are currently running 1.5.2, you’ll be interested to read the replies to the following post on Owen’s blog, Asymptomatic.

After having upgraded to 2.0 myself, I can honestly state that although I like the improvements, had I known then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. Among the commenters, the consensus seems to be “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Aparently, the improvements in the latest version of WordPress are mostly internal (except for the editing screen, which broke one of my plugins, FrameBuster).

Actually, one of the issues that’s been bothering me is the habit WordPress seems to have when editing a post of deleting all the Technorati tags I assigned to it, so I have to re-assign a post its tags every time I post. Pretty annoying.

There are other goods and bads, but overall, although I like it, I would probably recommend other bloggers hold off, especially if you have a lot of plugins. If you don’t, go for the upgrade. You won’t be gaining much, but you’ll be gaining one or two things of interest.

Gnorb.NET is now running on WordPress 2.0. Unfortunatelly, my custome theme with the cool, random header images doesn’t work with WP2, but as soon as I get it to work the site will pretty much be back to normal. For now, just treat this as a regular blog, instead of as your guidepost to life. (I kid! I kid!)

Edit: The site’s pretty much complete. Turns out most of my plugins worked just fine. I’ll still have the goet the updated versions of the ones that didn’t, but it looks like everything’s back to normal. I’d like to thank the WordPress theme for the awesome job they’ve done. If you want to try WordPress for yourself, head down to WordPress.com and sign up for a free blog, or go to WordPress.org and download the software for yourself.

For the past couple of weeks, my email address was messed up. That’s finally fixed.

Last nigh my site went down. As of this afternoon, that’s fixed.

The old bBlog part of my site is still down. That’ll get fixed.

I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.0 today while I watch the Bucs/Redskins game. After that’s over with, I’ll have to spend some time getting all the plugins and themes back in place. In the process, I’ll finish getting all the stuff out of bBlog and wipe that system off “my” server.

Once all that is done, all will once again be well.

This is the beginning of the end for site changes. Thank God. In addition, thank Nate, and the WordPress team.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my team needs me. Too bad there’s nothing I can do here but yell “Go, Team, Go!” Not like it’ll make a difference — the Bucs are down 14-3 — but I do it just for fun.

By the way, check out my WordPress.com site, Gnorb’s Kitschy CyberXtreme iBlog. (Because one cliche catch phrase slogan just isn’t enough.)

Ok, I’m not sure what’s going on, but lately I’ve been in an incredible writing mood. I’m talking about taking a notepad everywhere, jotting down every thought I want to develop (and some I don’t), and racing to get home at nights so I can write. What’s up with this?

I’m not a huge fan of horror-scopes — in fact, I only look at them when I want to get a good laugh — but today’s astrology.com.au reading is creepily on the mark:

Mercury passing through your zone of self means you’re hyped-up in your communication. You’re plugged in, talkative and ideas come from all directions. Avoid needless arguments today though. Walking or physical exercise might help relax your mind. Peace is your keyword for the moment.

Weird. I’ve been like this all week though, not just today. Don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I have like 6 different entires — on notepad — waiting to be put up. If you happen to see an elevated level of activity this week, now you know why.

As a sidenote, I saw something pretty cool today on Digg.com. Wordpress has come out with its own web-hosted version of its awesome Wordpress blogging software. From what I’ve seen, the backend doesn’t look too different from the self-hosted version, save for some functional limitations (themes, plugins, and a few other things). Doesn’t look bad, and I’d gladly recommend it to anyone wanting to get their own “my cats are cool” page like this one. (Because my cats are cool, daing it! Well, they used to be until one of them died and the other became a fat, furry imitation of a meat loaf.) Check it out at Wordpress.com.

I think I may finally have found what the problem with Technorati spidering my site is. I was planning to send them another message asking why they haven’t yet answered my first post when I noticed the following bit of information from http://technorati.com/help/publishers.html –

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