Aldoblog

Instead of working on updated versions of my instructions for importing audiobooks into iTunes, I have instead branched out, adding a new section covering a new topic. Announcing Aldo on TiVo! Currently there is only one article in the section, Playing BitTorrent Downloads on a TiVo Series 3, reflecting a new trick that I figured […]

I am in the process of upgrading Aldoblog to the latest version of WordPress. I think I’ve finished most of the work, with just some cleanup remaining where the new version of my formatting plug-in is behaving differently. It seems to only be affecting my longer instructional pieces, mostly for numbered lists, so the scope […]

I wrote previously about my DSL woes, which at the time seemed to be rain induced. But in the last two weeks I’ve started hearing increasing static on the phone line, and can only assume my wiring is disintegrating rapidly, in spite of the currently fabulous weather. I’m doing two things. One is get bids […]

That’s been my DSL connection over the last few weeks. And since I self-host this site, on a cheap PC sitting on a shelf, Aldoblog has been up and down, too. Very irritating. The problem is the wiring. Our house is a 100+ year old Victorian, and all of our phone wiring (except for the […]

Yet another WordPress update, and once again, no list of the changed files to make the minor update a little easier to install. Here’s a list of the differences.

Another update for WordPress, from 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.1. Here’s a list of the files that changed in this minor patch release.

I updated to WordPress 1.5.1 on Friday, after drinking a cocktail with Rochelle. Maybe not the best strategy for preparing for a software upgrade, but everything seems to be working fine. Let me know if you see something funky…

When I converted this site to WordPress, I decided to turn on commenting, and see what happened. I have gotten a fair number of really good comments, and from people I didn’t know, which was cool. I also got a ton of comment spam (most of which never made it online). Not cool.

So I did a few things about it.

OK, the new version of WordPress is going to get me into trouble. I need to get back to work, instead of continuing to fuss.

The WordPress upgrade instructions are pretty good, but they left out at least one recommendation I wish I’d heard before I got started.