What’s All This Then!

This started as a test post after upgrading to latest WordPress. My conclusion is that 2.7 is still BROKEN!

- Preview function still doesn’t work unless you publish your post to the public … which defeats the purpose of viewing your entry before anyone else gets to see those glaring mistakes.

- If you’re signed into your account, you still can’t edit your posts while being directly at your blog site.

- Lots of fancy crap added though! Too bad WP 2.3 made it easier to blog …

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I fought with using K2 as my WordPress theme long enough. No matter what I changed, I could not get my side column to show up correctly. So I’m trying out this free Aeros theme designed by Joe Fischler. What do you think? You should see more changes in the future as I experiment with this.

Now, I can only hope that WordPress 2.7 will return some of its past functionality … like being able to preview without first making it public or editing a post directly from my site.

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I finally upgraded this blog from WordPress 2.1.2 to 2.6.0. The process only took 3 hours and went well except for the database upgrade step. Now all my categories are blank. They are listed in the database as “-2″, “-2-2″, “-2-2-2″, etc, instead as text! And I noticed that my columns no longer fit into their previously assigned spaces. ::: sigh :::

If you experience any other problems with this blog, PLEASE let me know.

UPDATE: Column problem is due to browser rendering. On my laptop, the columns line up correctly. In Internet Explorer and Firefox 3 on my home system, the 2nd column starts after the bottom of the 1st column. Anyone know why?

UPDATE #2: Sometimes WordPress will allow categories with spaces between words and other times it will blank out that category. I’m finding that this happens randomly as I save and exit out of my blog.

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Usually April 15th is the deadline for filling in your sudoku puzzle known as the 1040. Since the 15th is on a Sunday, the deadline has been moved. Yet this year’s Tax Day isn’t on Monday as you would expect. Instead we have until Tuesday the 17th to grind and gnash our teeth over convoluted paperwork. And “Why do we have an extra day?” you may ask. Well, today Washington DC observes “Emancipation Day” – a recognition for when government outlawed slavery in the private sector. Ironically, tomorrow we all get to observe slavery by the public sector as we celebrate having the fruits of our labors taken from us – not asked for, not earned – taken for pork barrel projects (like the million dollar appropriation for a teapot museum in North Carolina), wasteful spending ($100,000 for goat-meat research in Texas), and needless regulation (estimation of 4.7 million people dying in the last 40 years while waiting for drugs finally approved by FDA). Our ancestors were a little crabby about a 3% tax without representation. Yet, as a result of their revolutionary whining, is 50% taxation with representation much better? Happy Tax Day, everybody!

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