kata Drew

What I like most about it is that it randomly closes the window; but, boy, is it a whole lot quicker than previous conflagrated vulpine canines. Aye it is.

After seeing all the flummery about the new Wordpress 2.5 and the screen shots of the the admin section, I decided to dive in. Actually it wasn’t that straight forward. Upgrading always makes me nervous. So, I upgraded via svn a test blog I keep tucked away online. It worked like a breeze. Praise the Lord for svn. “Svn up” and you’re done. I then decided to svn up this blog, but the oddest thing happened, or didn’t happen: “svn up” doesn’t work on this blog. On my test blog it automatically grabs the latest beta/nightly release and upgrades, but the “svn up” doesn’t work on this one. I’m bewildered. I read something about checking the file and directory permissions for a solution, but that didn’t help though several files and directories needed their permissions changed. Svn didn’t fail me totally with this blog though. Instead of svn up I used “svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/” and bingo. Why “switch” works and not “update” is beyond me; nonetheless, Wordpress 2.5 release candidate 1 is up and going with a beautiful, slick back end. All my plugins are still working as far as I can tell. Well done, Wordpress.

Do you use Google Reader as your RSS feed reader? You should because not only is it fantastic online, but a humdinger offline. It took me a while to figure how to access the reader through my browser (Firefox) once offline, but now that I know I wanted to pass it along. I had been trying to get to it by going to reader.google.com; the correct URL is google.com/reader. It makes all the difference. Thanks, Google!

For more info about using Google Reader offline, see this page.

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 in about 10 minutes through subversion and command line. Subsequent upgrades should just happen in a snap; I just had to get my installation switched over to subversion. Switching over was a breeze and will save a lot of time and hassle in the future.

Wordpress, Gutenberg would be proud!

Joshua Harris has a good post My One and Only Week on Facebook in which he gives several reasons for his ditching the famed socialization portal:

1. “I don’t need another reason for staring at a computer screen.”
2. “I found that it encouraged me to think about me even more than I already do…I need to grow in self-forgetfulness. I need to worry more about what God is thinking of me. I need to be preoccupied with what he’s written in his word, not what somebody just wrote on my ‘wall.’”
3. “And, finally, I need to read more.”

Computers can be a double sin (if there’s such a thing): creating opportunity for sin and keeping one from more profitable things.

Have many books could I have read with all the time I’ve wasted on my laptop?