For the bloggers out there, Wordpress is out in version 2.5 as of a week ago. I just upgraded my own blog at Bluehost; pretty painless thing, however rather than deleting, I simply renamed wp-includes and wp-admin to include an _ / underscore, then copied the files across and touched on the upgrade.php file.
One issue was that the maintenance mode plugin didn’t let me go to upgrade.php, so I simply renamed the plugin directory and I was fine.
read moreIn an unexpected stint of house keeping, I decided to updated to a newer version of Wordpress – just using Bluehost’s auto update function. Now, whilst doing this I realised that my old template was getting old; the new version of the otherwise stunning Vistered Little theme was performing even slower than the last, so I set out on search for a new template.
I finally found Yichi’s Resurrection – which is fast performing and very beautiful. A couple of things were broken due to it not being a WP2.3 template, however when I got rid of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and replaced it with Reciprocity’s Configurable Tag Cloud – things were much better.
I also set up a twitter account, which looks like an interesting thingie – I will see how I go with it, on top of Facebook, Google Talk and other places to set my current status. 
In the year of 2000 I previously had a hand made “blog” (although I wasn’t aware of that term back then) with lots of pictures from Melbourne that I took in my early days here. After some time offline, I thought it was time to bring it back to life. Whilst I probably won’t post too much of that early content, it is good to have my online playground back online.
So – funkdancer.com is resurrected. Over the next few weeks I’ll do the site up properly. For now it is just a placeholder. Cheers!
I have chosen the awesome “Vistered Little Theme” for the blog. Click on those little squares to select your background image. In Firefox it renders perfectly, but MSIE7 gives horisontal scrollbars. Oh well.
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