When you look into the eyes of someone close to you and say “Happy New Year”, just remember that their happiness is almost entirely in your hands. So if you do say it, be sure to not just mean it but carry it through too. Best not to start the year with a lie ….
So, it’s Sunday tomorrow then …
If you were using my cron script and you have upgraded to WP2.0, then you must update the cron as otherwise your data will be incomplete – there is an additional table in the new version. Details are on the cron page and there is an updated file to download.
I’ve played all the courses now, tried one online game (joint 2nd), can’t quite get the super starts reliably enough but if your ass is ready, I’ll kick it. Maybe. Probably not actually – P can beat me :) But hey – it might even be fun !
Although it hasn’t been officially announced and therefore has not appeared in thousands of dashboards, it IS out, and it IS official code. Hey – I even wrote an upgrade guide for it. I’ll skip to the heart of the post: Am I upgrading ?
No.
I’m using 1.5.2 and right now it’s staying that way (never say never …).
If you would like a blog that has a WYSIWYG editor to help write posts, upgrading might be for you.
If you have many users and would like to streamline their roles, then upgrading is almost definitely for you as a lot of work has gone into that aspect of the code.
If you are happy for WP to decide how to manage your uploads, upgrading might be for you.
If you want a little picture to help you remember which theme is which then yep, moving to 2.0 could be good.
If you will appreciate the many codebase changes that have been made, go for it.
I think that about covers the major points and none of them work for me. It’s not that I don’t appreciate that a lot of work has gone into the release, and it’s got nothing to do with the reported bugs – it’s got everything to do with the very simple fact that there is nothing in the 2.0 package that enhances what I am using right now. Nothing at all.
I dislike WYSIWYG. There is only me as a user. I organise my webspace and I don’t need a theme picture because it’s my theme and there is only one in the directory. And although the codebase may indeed be better, the features that come with it are not attractive. Owen is asking why people are not upgrading and is – I think – looking at the upgrade process as the reason. For me, it’s got nothing to do with that – it’s a piece of cake. It’s because I have been following the development, using SVN code (the Testtrack blog on the WP guides is SVN code) and at no point have I thought “Oooohhh.. like that!”. It’s not that this blog is hacked – I’m no coder – or that I can’t find the time / be bothered or even that I’m looking for another blogging program. It’s also no secret and never has been.
I loved WP 1.2.2 and that was where WP was at it’s peak – IMO – for a single blogger. Upgrading to 1.5 brought me no particular extras but the admin side was fairly unaffected (I have no dashboard. I removed it completely) so it’s okay to stay with it. But the move to 2.0 adds what I see as junk.
WP 1.2.2 – 313KB
WP 1.5.2 – 357KB
WP 2.0 – 590KB
Even if I turn off all the js, I still have it there and what attracted me to WP was the small efficient code that I uploaded. 1.2.2 unzipped to 992KB, 1.5.2 to 1.05MB and 2.0 unzips to 1.72MB – there is nothing in that extra 670KB that makes my ‘blogging experience’ any better. So why bother ?
This isn’t to say that my involvement is stopping, or that my support is disappearing – far from it – just that right now this code jump is one I shall skip. I will continue to run 2.0 blogs – just not this one. If I’m really honest I think the 1.5.2 branch should be maintained and promoted as the blogging program for single users, possibly small groups, while 2.0 moves into the CMS territory. I don’t have a system of content that needs managing – I just have a blog, and all I want to do is blog.
Having said all that – have a look at 2.0 and see if it is what YOU want. It may well be and there will probably be a whole raft of new plugins to play with. The upgrade is painless (backup first!) so that’s not really a reason – unless your blog is hacked and then you have only yourself to blame. But if the thought of the upgrade worries you, or you have any questions whatsoever, post to the forums – you will get help there (and possibly from me because like I said, I’m still going to be there).
(maybe…maybe if that wysiwyg thing had remained as a plugin ……..)
It gets wierder … I’ve read everywhere I can, and I’ve watched a couple of things a couple of times and the whole thing seems to very wrong on numerous levels. Not the act – which is horrific – but everything else. Having read and watched though, I know precisely where I’m pointing my finger right now. ….
There’s a story about a little girl being abducted from her bath. Something isn’t ringing true there for me …….. very strange.
Then this would be one.
Check out the 4th suspect here.
It was the theme that was screwing things up, which is why it worked for me when I was changing themes earlier and then it stopped. Annoying as I wanted a full width theme (Modernist throws incomprehensible errors at me). So do it again if you want – Go slide!
Skippy is very kindly sending me an Orinoco wifi card so that I really can play at this Linux thing. That is a very generous gesture from Skippy and I’m looking forward to at the very least firing up IRC when I can connect, but thinking about things, I need to start preparing. My Password manager is Windows only. My personal emails are all POP, my RSS reader is Windows, it’s ALL Windows and while that is blindingly obvious, it means that unless I do actually prepare in some way then I will get frustrated because of my lacking rather than at whichever flavour of Linux I choose to use.
Passwords are easy – I’ll export the lot and stick them in my online wiki (which has 2 layers of pw protection so I’m okay with that), emails …. I suppose I just set it up again and try to remember essential correspondence .. and other programs I’ll just ask when I need them. Old habits.
And as for which flavour, I’m looking over at Distrowatch and will select something from there. A cute logo will assist this process (except for Ubuntu which is just brown) but I can be swayed ….
The BBC report a poll of movie fans carried out by Empire Magazine, and 10,000 people voted Tom “glint glint” Cruise to be the most irritating shortarse on the whole of the planet. According to one editor on said magazine the reason for this vote
“may be a knee-jerk reaction to his year in the spotlight”
Bollocks. It’s no knee-jerk reaction at all. Tom Cruise is irritating beyond measure. Nothing, nothing can be more irritating than the ultra-sound owning, definitely-not-gay-because-he’s-got-a-girlfriend, smile that’s brighter than a magnesium flare, curing the world with every sickening grin, scientology expounding psychiatry know-it-all. You know WHY he’s in the movies ? Because no-one would give him a job because he’s just too irritating to be around !
Tom – make us ALL love you. Get lost :)