Textual Pornography

Well, it’s been less than a month since my last post, so there’s some definite progress on the regularity front.

Tonight I updated WordPress to version 2.5, which of course is not particularly notable for any reason, but I did so by checking out the 2.5 tag using svn instead of following one of the more common methods, like grabbing the release archive or using my host’s software installation feature. Colin mentioned the ability to do this to me, and I’m not one to pass up a couple of nerd credits. Some day I’ll find the redemption booth.

Had some fun with the upgrade, though, on account of some issues with the character encodings. The problem was introduced with version 2.2, and I thought I had upgraded to that or a higher version beforehand, but apparently I didn’t. Late to the party, alas. You can read more about the problem and the fix here if you’re interested. I ended up just doing the conversion manually instead of writing a query or using a script or plugin.

While I’m on the subject of the blog, some time hopefully in the next week, I’m going to switch themes. The current theme has several issues, such as the rather ugly wall of green you get when you maximize the browser window. I haven’t decided yet what the new look will be, but knowing myself and my design abilities and sensibilities, it’ll probably end up looking something like this. I also still don’t have a profile page, or really anything anywhere identifying myself aside from the footer and occasional comment.

This will also hopefully be the first of several major site updates I have planned, including a real home page instead of the two and a half year old placeholder.