With this blog having been out of action so long, there’s a lot of upgrading to do. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5, and to K2 RC6, losing my custom CSS and header image of the Melbourne skyline in the process. Expect to see some of it back soon.
Update 23 August 2006: I’m back to K2 Beta Two, since 0.9 was messing up the formatting of static pages by putting tags around them. Here’s hoping the next version won’t include problems I don’t know how to fix. *** Tonight I updated this site’s theme to the “latest beta”:http://getk2.com/2006/08/k2-09-release/ of the wonderful “K2″:http://getk2.com [...]
I’ve fixed most of the havoc caused by relocating the site, but I’m sure to have missed some garbage text where a few particular unicode characters used to be. More significantly, the site has had a redesign making use of the “K2″:http://www.binarybonsai.org/wordpress/k2 template from “Binary Bonsai”:http://www.binarybonsai.com. It look surprisingly professional now, with a lot of [...]
The site is now up and running at its new home at “Mediatemple”:http://www.mediatemple.net. Several things got broken in the migration process, including, it seems, the text encoding. Please be patient while I put things back in order, with an improved, “K2-based”:http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/ layout.
On the 5th of January, this site’s server went down without warning. When it came back up again on the 6th of January, it had been rolled back to a backup from over a week old. I lost about a week’s worth of posts, and my upgrade to WP 2.0 and K2. My host’s admin [...]
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WordPress 2.6 and Freshy
In the absence of genuine content updates, the long-overdue announcement that this site no longer uses WordPress 2.5 or K2, but is now on WordPress 2.6 and a new theme. I spent several weeks looking for a new base theme for my WordPress sites, and I finally settled on Freshy. Paired with the aptly named [...]