I'm a little slow on the uptake today. While going through a website for a review on my Blog & Article Reviews blog, I remembered that this PC needed to be updated with service pack 3 for Windows XP.

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I just spent the last 24 hours upgrading WordPress on 3 blogs. Things broke. Some people were blamed, others were shot.

I could have saved myself a whole lot of headaches if I'd disabled the cache on each of them while changing the widgets. Mine kept disappearing on me. If you haven't upgraded yet, do yourself a favor and do that first.

I don't know what all the hullabaloo was about, but I just finished upgrading this blog, Untwisted Vortex, and my other blog. Both are now running the latest stable version (2.3) of WordPress. I think there was like 5 minutes where the blogs were inaccessible.

I took the opportunity to also upgrade all of my plugins. I only had to manually edit one. Piece of cake — the instructions were on the website for the plugin, in the comments.

Now, about this tagging thing. I haven't used it up till now and I don't plan to do so anytime soon. It's supposed to be good for SEO purposes but I don't buy it. Other than that, this was a ho-hum upgrade in my opinion, almost not worth doing at all.

Yes, I started the upgrade and then things went bad really fast. Everything was in the process of uploading when my DSL connection disappeared. Granted, it was only for about 5 minutes, but part of the files I thought were uploaded weren't. So… I started all over again. When the smoke cleared, everything worked. My blog was pretty much unavailable for over an hour.

You know, I could have the greatest connection in the world, but when the time comes that I'm doing something important (like an upgrade!), then the connection is crappy. Murphy's law is proven once again.

I posted previously that I believed I got hacked. Well, I did, but only after the WordPress distribution server got hacked and WordPress version 2.1.1 was released to everyone with a huge security risk.Their story is: WORDPRESS 2.1.1 DANGEROUS, UPGRADE

No kidding? After I was told about popups on my blog by a conscientious observer, I found my wp-cache-config file had an extra line of code which loaded an iframe to a website that was pumping eight popup windows every time someone arrived at my website. I also found the same code in a backup file.

This is no joke. If you upgraded to 2.1.1, upgrade again to 2.1.2 immediately.