Yes, lots of bluster, and liquids flung everywhere.

So we’re looking at high-ish winds and between 2 and 5 inches of rain. WhatEVAR. That’s a regular Saturday around here.

So, about the new look… As I cried said before, I was using a photoblog plugin to adapt wordpress into a photobloggy sort of application, and all that went very, very bad during the upgrades to 2.6. So, rather than troubleshoot someone else’s crappy code, I’m going back to a more bloggy sort of layout, which surely pleases me in the archive department. Thumbnail images as archives are great for a pure photoblog, but not so helpful when you also write words to go along with.

But I’m also still a very prolific shooter, with a whole lotta flowers, flutterbys and general scenery lying about, so the image up top will randomly rotate as you visit/navigate/generally reload pages. Yes, it’s a huge honking image, sorry, but in that I still wish to remain photobloggy. At least the body images will be about 200 pixels smaller in this layout, to make room for the spiff-tastic sidebar over there to the right.

Yes, I said spiff-tastic.

I have to go glare at the remnants of Fay now, who since I started this post has dwindled somewhat in her trek across lower Florida, and rather resembles a semi-incontinent ex-paint huffer…

Yes, wandering around in circles and occasionally piddling in corners.

Those of you using WordPress note how it shrieks at you to upgrade whenever a new release comes about. Generally, this is a good idea, as fallow versions tend to become script kiddie targets, and next thing you know, your server is spewing Vi@gr@ spam and your sysadmins are giving you the fuck-eye.

Despite the immense number of plugins I was using, as well as the squirrelly (unnecessarily-) PHP-coded theme, I upgraded.

We’ll just gloss right over the next three days, shall we? Suffice it to say, I have done a fresh install of WP 2.6 and exported my entries from the old install into this new one. There will be days and days of tweaking ahead as A) this theme, er, is not up to my standards, and B) we’re scheduled for a hurricane enema from Fay tomorrow.

Coriander and Nancy, I’m sorry, but in the process of recovering my old blog I had to do a restore from backup, and your last comments were blitzed into oblivion. Please don’t take it personally, I love you, I rly ryl do.

See you all on the flip side.