WordPress Upgrade

I finally got ticked enough at the nag screens I installed a month ago, to go ahead and upgrade WordPress to 2.3.1.

Seems to work, but as always, report to feedback any problems.

I’m seeing some screwups with the advertisers…

Ron Paul, as you may know…particularly if you’ve been reading here, was on Meet the Press yesterday. Now I doubtless will be getting reaction from the Paulettes, as I do every freakin’ time I bring the subject up…. reaction not

Finally, the 6th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards are live. Find out which blogs were voted as the best — and worst — by their fellow bloggers. You can see won these once per year awards, which are

OK, I’ve apparently cured the outstanding issues we had with the Google Sitemap plugin, and so we can now proceed to the new version of WordPress. Unsure yet when that will happen. I’ve got the upgrade process automated, but

So, the Democrats managed to ‘slip one by’ CNN’s screening process? It appears so.

Adam Yoshida notes it, this morning:

So, the fellow who just asked the Republican candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, retired Brigader General Keith Kerr,

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently

The Daily Mail:

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her

Michael van der Galiën:

Of course, the problem isn’t that Fox News is biased, it’s that the bias isn’t liberal / Laborite. No, the real problem is that Fox News has a conservative bias. If the news network was

• I’m currently studying the implications of a WordPress upgrade to version 2.31. I’ll likely do this sometime this week, or possibly the weekend following Thanksgiving. To this end, I may be bringing the system down for short periods for backups

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to “shut up” Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Chavez, who called President Bush the “devil”

• I’ve spent the last several days, beating up on Panther, which is my main desktop computer, as well as doing upgrade work on the other systems here at Casa de Bit. I’ve managed to work through the problems surrounding my

An interesting set of conditions leads to some interesting mail to catch up on, this morning.

Last night, I took a healthy swipe at Glenn Greenwald. (I know… it’s a target that’s all too easy, but someone hadda do

Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and the 1-5 candidates

• I finally… finally…slapped that nasty little bug in the comments section. Been a while since I’ve had the programmer’s hat on. The bug in case you’d not noticed, was the oddball time display on each comment. Bad call to