WordPress (my blogging platform) just released a new version and I am having some difficulty with the upgrade. Be patient, some things may disappear from the blog for a short time before they come back. No content lost this time though!! I should have it all working again by Saturday night, with perhaps a new theme too!
Amazing. I’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and I didn’t crash the blog at all! If you happen to notice anything out of place, please let me know but I think that things are all in order and I’ve got a new back end to play with that is far more user friendly. I know I’m a geek but I enjoy this sort of thing.
I made it back today after 2 days of intensive training with my company over in Wisconsin. I’m exhausted and I have to work all weekend too. I likely won’t write again until next week but you never know, I may be inspired by something so just stay tuned.
I found this graphic the other day and think it’s worth uploading due to the screaming the wing-nuts are up to lately. If you have not been following, gays are now being blamed for being pissed off with the largely religious voting base that in my opinion (and many others who know a LOT more than me) has illegally stripped a suspect class of a fundamental right. Say what you will about “constitutional” rights and activist judges HOWEVER, the CA judiciary determined that gays were a suspect class AND that marriage was a right they were entitled to (just like everyone else). There are 3 parts to this government and in these cases the checks and balances ALL WORK exactly like they are supposed to work, it is simply that a vocal population disagrees with the judicial outcome and simply does not understand the decisions (but they sure do when judges agree with THEM now don’t they…). A predominantly religious base did not agree with that CA decision and successfully (through ballot initiative) wrote specific discrimination into the CA constitution. The legal arguments out there will draw this out for likely a couple of years but the outcome is pretty well decided and it is again, an outcome that God fearing bigots will not like. In America in 2008 it is unacceptable for a majority to oppress a RECOGNIZED minority from obtaining and realizing their constitutional rights. This is not an argument you can win with scripture and I will do my bloody best to resist being a second class citizen of this country. Ya, OK you can have my soap box now but I intend to push you off of it again.
Tonight I am attempting to install Word Press 2.7. The last time I made an upgrade to the back end, I lost everything and had to start this blog over. While that is not a huge deal, I have written quite a bit that I don’t really care to lose. The site may be down for a couple hours, it might be down for a couple days, I don’t know but bear with me. I’ll post again once I’ve upgraded successfully.
Well Folks, you’ll notice that there are absolutely NO previous posts on this blog now! What a fucking night. In my rather weak attempt to be tech savvy, I tried to fix the media problem that I had been experiencing earlier and in the process I managed to delete my entire blog. SO, I guess since I’m having to start my life over again, so then I shall do with my blog. Everything works now in it’s default state, we’ll see what happens once I start to do the customizations again. Hopefully it won’t fuck them all up. Those of you who have posted here before may need to register again. I don’t know. Don’t take it personally. Anyhow, now I’m off to customize again. Enjoy looking here at nothing in the mean time!