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Another attempt to squeeze posting into my working day. I’ll be giving Blogo a try this week, expect posts of some sort.

Well, that’s the plan at least.

Have eliminated a bunch of posts which were horribly broken by previous blog editors. Apologies if you arrived here via a 404.

I’ve been pondering this a lot lately and concluded that the easiest thing to do would be write a post (mostly for my benefit) on the topic of why I registered and keep seeming to fail blogging here on TT.

To answer the question I’ve been asked several times lately, I came by the name back when I was in Year 10 at PGS. One of my lecturers wasn’t entirely keen on the direction our discussions took and one day dubbed me the “master of tangential thinking” and when I was scrabbling around for an apt domain to register it came to mind… It’s only more recently when looking at site maps and SEO I find that it’s also a symptom of schizophrenia (I’m not, thankfully).

Anyhow, this blog, originally I started it with the intention of writing about the things which interest me in my everyday faffing with gadgetry and trawling of ‘teh intarweb’ but since the transition back from journalist to SysAdmin I seem to have lost a lot of the organisational skills which I developed and feel much more like a monkey at a typewriter when I sit down to post.

It’s frustrating as nearly every day I encounter things of interest which would be worth discussion, one of the reasons I began getting in to GTD was to start capturing all these ideas in a logical and structured fashion to begin making more sense of the various todos which form my everyday life.

There’s a whole range of topics I’ve yet to cover in any detail, my day is spent working on products such as Exchange 2007, ISA 2006, Office Communications Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 but I’ve posed on none of them. Nil. Nada.

 I’d say there’s a fair share of procrastination too in the sense that being a bit of a  perfectionist (read: picky sod), I’ve changed the design of the site countless times - I’m not quite sure how I want TT to look or behave but seem to have adopted the tactic of changing it frequently because that elusive layout is obviously going to be produced by my next redesign (or the one after that) - imagine more monkeys + typewriters here…

All these changes don’t just hold the process of blogging up, they’ve been fairly counterproductive in other ways too, a recent ecto upgrade hosed 90% of the larger posts on the site, I’m not sure which button I pressed but as of now I vow to stick to Live Writer, the Wordpress WYSIWYG or Scribefire. I should probably schedule some regular backups too :).

So, from tomorrow I’m going to quit thinking about layout, lists and what the best topics would be and just make sure I post something daily. Actually make today my first day - not an interesting post but one I had to write so that I could get on with the task in hand.

I’m posting this mostly due to sheer laziness.

Wordpress 2.3 was recently patched due to a nasty security vuln, but people are still getting caught out and haven’t moved to 2.3.1

So I thought I’d show you how easy it is.

Provided you can SSH to your provider, this is practically all you need to do:

(remember to cd in to the root of your wordpress installation before attempting the below)

• wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
• tar xfz latest.tar.gz
• rm -rf ./wp-includes/
• rm -rf ./wp-admin/
• cd wordpress/
• cp -rpf * ../ (note, some distributions will require “cp -rpf –reply=yes * ../” - mine doesn’t)
• cd ..
• rm -rf ./wordpress/
• rm -f latest.tar.gz

And there you go, a shiny new and upgraded wordpress. This won’t alter your themes or plugins, the usual caveats apply with compatibility of your themes, plugins and haxxies.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not to blame if you break your wordpress with the above, especially if you don’t bother to back up. The above works for me, I’m so confident of it in fact that it’s just a flat script that I run, so even simpler from my perspective… YMMV etc.

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Well, Safari 3 final didn’t fix anything. Did 2.3.1?

Nothing to see here.This should be a different line.

It’s still not fixed, and now I have to go fix all my posts :-/

Since the acquisition of my iPod touch this week I’ve found myself using the built in Safari browser much more than any of my previous mobile devices.

With the exception of sites driven by heavy javascript, or unsupported technologies such as Silverlight and Flash, pages load pretty quickly and render well.

The one drawback of my redesign to TT is the fixed-width nature, I’ve installed the iWphone plugin and theme from ContentRobot so pages should look a little different when visited from the iPhone/iPod touch. I’m also testing out the iPhone Mobile Admin from Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron although I think I’ll stick to posting from Scribefire for the time being.

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