Yesterday, I made a post about backing up. A few hours later, Peppery, the server admin decided to upgrade my Wordpress blog to 2.5.1. Well what happened was instead of upgrading, he ended up deleting my blog off the server. He fucked up. To make it worse, he didn’t have a backup to restore my blog. Ironic how a couple of hours after I write a post about backing up, something goes wrong with my blog and there is NO backup!

At least all my posts and settings were in tack in the mysql database. He managed to restore my blog and theme and some of the plugins. I don’t have a clue what plugins are still missing but they can’t be important or else I would remember them. After he mucked around for a while, everything seems to be as good as rain. The only thing I am missing are PSP themes that were on the server. Lucky that I moved the pictures saved on the server to another host so they will be fine if anything was to happen, like this. Now I just need to restore the themes.

As you may not have noticed, my blog was updated to Wordpress 2.5 last week, thanks to Peppery. The only noticeable change is in the admin panel where is has been redone to be easier to use and look much nicer. It is taking a little bit of getting use to but after a while, I’m sure I will remember where they have moved things. For a new Wordpress user, the admin panel will definitely be easier to use but for an old user like me, I’m going to have to get fully use to it.

You may have noticed the lack of update in the past week or so. The reason for my absence in blogging is because I have been overloaded with assessments that were due. I had 5 different bits of schoolwork to do. One was a report for geography on the processes of building the new Carisbrook Stadium in Dunedin, which was really hard to do. I’d be lucky to pass because I had no bloody idea what I was rambling about. I also had a Statistics project to complete which was straightforward, just took a little bit of thinking and time to complete and write up. There was also some small bits of homework such as 2 pages of physics questions, some Computing tasks and also an electronics research project on transducers to be completed.

I have finished doing all assignments and hopefully my plate stays relitively clean for a while, especially during the holidays, so I can do what I normally do and not be tied down with homework and assignments to get done. Hopefully there is no homework for me to do over the holidays so I can have a relaxing break without having to even think about school or school work. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Well if you are reading this, you are obviously aware of the changes. First off, the blog has been moved off Wordpress MU to an independent blog, it is still hosted my Word Dissociation though. It should look and work exactly the same as it did before with a few minor changes.

The theme is the same as well as most of the plugins. All the posts and comments were imported here so they aren’t gone either. The feed was changed so the Feedburner feed was pointing to the right place. This shouldn’t have effected you but you may have noticed previous posts appearing in your readers.

The only differences are the URL. It should be slightly easier to remember at http://yum9me.worddissociation.net. I am currently working on getting a dedicated domain for this blog and my Tumblr to make it easier to access my sites. There are also two new plugins for comments, Gravatar, which is a avatar service. You can sign up and assign your avatar at their site. The second is Firestats, which shows your country, OS and browser along with your comments.

It was extremely quick migration and would have been unnoticed to a lot of people. I would like to thank Peppery for providing this service to me and for his help with the blog, and other things online. Cheers to him!