Reasonably Logical

As some of you may have noticed, earlier this afternoon I attempted to upgrade the software that runs this blog. I made backups before starting, but didn’t bother to do a beta run on a clone first. After all, this was going to be an easy upgrade right? Wrong. Thank God I made backups before starting.

Turns out there are some significant bugs in the upgrade process having to do with some of the new tagging and taxometry features in Wordpress 2.6. Essentially, the upgrade of the categories tables got royally screwed up. This site describes the problem and a hackish work around to fix it.

I thought about editing my database tables manually, but you know what? I just don’t care that much. Instead, I reverted back to my backups and have the site up and running again. I may upgrade once 2.6.1 comes out if they fix the upgrade problems, but frankly I’ll be much more reluctant to do so in the future.

If you insist on trying to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6, I recommend two important steps:
- Backup your database and complete wordpress installation first
- Install a complete copy of your site (using the backups you just made) and test the upgrade there. The upgrade brought my entire blog down for a little over 30 minutes before I could revert. While that isn’t a big deal to me with the low traffic this site receives, I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone else.

I’ve had a couple of folks ask why I was using a seperate email account for the trip, so I thought I’d answer here. For those who haven’t noticed, I’m using eurotrip@p..r..com rather than my usual philip@p..r..com.

There were two real reasons:

1. I need to be able to login from public terminals here and I didn’t want to have to change my password on the main account.
2. This way if the account gets hacked due to someone stealing my password, I don’t loose anything. (Everything is being copied and forwarded from my standard account. So worse comes to worse, I still have a copy.)

But then again, if you’re reading this you already know. The new (and hopefully permanent) site is: blog.philipreames.com

The main reason for the move is to allow me to put ads on the homepage. What can I say? I’m a greedy capitalist. I didn’t want to let that blog traffic go to waste.

To handle comment spam, I’ve restricted comments to registered users. To post a comment, you must be logged into wordpress.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but I’m getting sick of clearing out junk comments.

Hey all. Welcome to my new blog. I’ll get around to writting something longer as way of a description latter, but for now I’m just going to be posting a few random items. When I see what type of stuff I actually tend to post on a regular basis, I’ll put up a real description.