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WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn official
I posted about this back on Monday, but now it’s actually official: WordPress 1.5 has been announced. It’s been downloaded 13,649 times and counting - don’t ask me how I know nevermind, you can see the download counter here.
Great day
*looks at clock* I had a great day yesterday. 
Well, I guess it seems like that because it ended on a good note. I had an accounting exam, and I bombed that. Sportline was tough because we’re transitioning into baseball and I moved a lot of stuff in. After that, everything was cool (which was basically the last 5-6 hours of my day). I went to Jamba Juice, finally fixed Jordan’s computer, and Devon was nice enough to give me his spare battery charger for my LG VX4400. No, I don’t have a picture phone yet.
The short of it: Jordan’s PC has been out of commission ever since he got his Samsung SP1614N 160GB hard drive. His Asus A7V133 doesn’t see all of the hard drive space, and we were trying a bunch of stuff to get it working. In the end, I finally realized he could just buy a controller card and plug his hard drive into it. From then on, the whole hard drive was detected and I was able to install Windows XP smoothly. Oh yeah, and I helped someone out in the WordPress IRC channel. I was very happy about that.
As for my charger, last September, I was in San Diego. You can read the details in that post. Devon has the same phone as me. His broke, and had to get a replacement. When he got his, he had the old charger. I didn’t realize it until a couple days ago, so I finally asked him. Now I can leave my phone on all the time again. Good timing, too, because my alarm clock just died. It’s cheesy and old anyways, I should buy a new one.
Oh yeah, and I’ll keep this Valentine’s theme up for awhile - Matt liked it, and I’m starting to like it even more, too.
Happy Birthday to Anthony!
Did this post have enough hypertext in it? 
Update links
Update: Solved. Refer to WordPress Update Links Solved.
One thing I finally noted with WordPress 1.5 is that there’s no more links-update-cache.xml file. Instead, under the wp-admin folder, we now have update-links.php.
If you crack that file open in your favorite text editor, you’ll see no trace of weblogs.com, which has a tendency to break occassionally. Instead, I see api.pingomatic.com.
If you were using the Update Linkroll plugin from Carthik (2fargon in the forums) back in 1.2.2, it won’t work anymore. You’ll either have to set a cron job or wait until someone creates a plugin. Well, you could also directly go to the file by bookmarking it and visiting it occassionally, but that’d be lame.
For the cron job, you’d need to run this periodically:
GET http://your-wordpress-site.com/wp-admin/update-links.php
If any of this is incorrect, I’ll edit this post later. For now, this was my excuse to give w.bloggar v4 another shot. Nope, no dice.
1.5 Strayhorn released!
WordPress 1.5 is now final. The development team has called it “Strayhorn”, named after jazz legend Billy Strayhorn.
In addition, Podz has finally released “Upgrading 1.2 to 1.5“. It says I helped. I tried it out and was able to upgrade smoothly. Thanks to him for writing it up, because I wouldn’t know how to get here in the first place. He’s the man!
MtDewVirus has done a review of WordPress 1.5 already. Wow! He just came from 1.3-alpha, so he was really impressed. I’m on it now, and I’m just glad things are stable. It was really simple to upgrade, but I was coming from a 1.5-gamma release. I think in general, you should be fine. For Andy and Pete who use WordPress for their class blog (to keep their students informed), I’ll upgrade theirs as well soon enough this week. I think they’ll be stoked, too.
Upgrade. Do it - now. (Thanks Chris, you were the first one that I saw post this.)
Update: Hmm…Gerd Riesselmann won’t upgrade. Too late, I already have. What now?
Happy Valentine’s Day
I hope all of you have a happy Valentine’s Day! Being inspired by Google and WordPress, I felt compelled to change the color around here. I’m sure it’s not the best, but I changed it up in a couple minutes. Better than nothing, I suppose. The text is made from Scriptina, which wasn’t detected in Gimp, so I had to do that in MSPaint. It works. Ctrl+F5 if you don’t see red everywhere.
iPod car mount broke
I’ve had an Arkon CM-625 for a year and four months today. It’s been great holding my iPod steady and higher than where my cupholders are. Unfortunately, the plastic finally broke that connects the holder from the stand. Should I just buy a new one or try to see if super glue will give it new life?
Test backups
When working with WordPress, this is usually said quite often: backup your files and database! Well, something to that effect. How about trying to restore those backups? Seeing that Matt’s going to have a 1.5 upgrade “partay” on Tuesday, February 15th, good backups came to mind. Also, how about that date Matt’s setup? Is that clever?
15th of [February] is official release for 1.5 or no? If so, clever!
Sure it’d be clever, but I’m not getting my hopes up. When it’s ready, I’ll be there.
Update: Thanks to podz for pointing out the following post.
Matt announced a Wordpress Upgrade Party for Tuesday.
Matt doesn’t recommend installing nightly builds of anything.
My guess: 1.5 will be released Tuesday, and be called “Arlen” after Jazz composer Harold Arlen… whose 100th birthday would have been Tuesday as well.
Bets, anyone?
Trek home
I’m going home in this. I took the picture on Wednesday, but it wasn’t raining. Today it is, and Sigalert is showing red right when I get on the freeway. Okay, bye.
Happy Chinese New Year!
My awesome friend Andy was nice enough to invite me to dinner at his house with a few other friends and immediate family. (He’s not awesome just because he invited me, of course.) His mom setup everything so elaborately and eloquently, and the food was very tasty. Using a hot pot way of cooking small portions of meat, seafood and vegetables is really interesting - in a good way. I had a great time trying to figure out how to eat the food, what to mix with, how long to cook certain things, and so on. I think we were at it for an hour before American Idol came on. We were full, so after clearing off most of the table, basically everybody watched it. I had to watch Alias, so I went into the other room with my other friend (who likes the show, too).
On a even better note, I wasn’t geeky after dinner. Afterwards, Pete took out his laptop to use Andy’s WiFi, Dave borrowed Andy’s (cheap) laptop to do the same - and I watched TV. I guess since I’m on computers at least three days a week for 4-5 hours at a time during work, I don’t feel as inclined to do so. At least I thought it was a bit funny.
Donating Gmail invites
Update: Man, now they’re down to about 179,000 invites. That’s a huge decrease in just a couple days! I wonder if people are hoarding Gmail accounts - that’s just wrong.
If you don’t know what else to do with your Gmail invites, head over to the isnoop.net Gmail invite spooler. At the time of this writing, they have over 1.5 million invites. You can then send your friends to that website to get a Gmail invite, if they’d like one. I’m going to save 5 invites and donate the other 45 nobody seems to want.
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