I just finished the upgrade to WordPress 2.1 "Ella." The upgrade was mostly painless, although I did have to weed out any customized files and themes before trashing the "old" version of WP that I just upgraded a couple of days ago. I should have the other ask-mark.com blogs upgraded to 2.1 before the end of the month. More likely than not, they will be upgraded one after the other in one long upgrade session. The database will get backed up before I do it, so you shouldn’t lose anything if something goes wrong.
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
It’s official!
Is it too early to call the game? I mean, there are four minutes left in the game, and the Bears are ahead by 25 points. There’s a chance that the Saints can score the points. Who am I kidding?
We’re going to the Super Bowl! Go Bears!
Update: The quality is pretty bad, but I saw this on YouTube today:
Today I added notes about why I chose the songs I did for my life soundtrack. So, check them out.
I upgraded a couple of things on the blog today. The first one was upgrading to WordPress 2.0.7. This latest release fixes a few security flaws, and it is expected to be the last release before 2.1. WordPress 2.1 is scheduled to be released before the end of the month, so it won’t be long before I upgrade again. When 2.1 is finally released, I will also be upgrading the rest of the ask-mark.com blogs.
The second upgrade was to my theme. I upgraded to K2 0.9.1. The beta release of K2 that I was running before was pretty good, but the latest release has some cool options that were not available in the beta. A couple of the features are much better implemented in this version, like the live search (it finally works for me), the rolling archives and the customization. I will be adding this theme to the ask-mark.com blogs when I upgrade them to 2.1 in the near future.
One other upgrade that was done recently was done in real life, and not online. On Monday, Chris’s dad and I fixed the toilet in the family room’s bathroom! It’s been just over a year since the chain on the flapper broke. After getting a replacement flapper, it initially would not flush properly. It turns out that the style of flapper that we bought needed to be cut to install correctly. After figuring that out (who would have thought directions would help?) we found that the top valve was leaking. So after another trip to Ace Hardware, we replaced the top valve. Now it still leaks, but I have to go to Ace a third time to get gaskets. Fixing a toilet sucks.
Jumping from site to site tongiht, I found this:
Ah, the memories…
I was reading about crazy materials that don’t act like your everyday materials. The first is a liquid that actually firms up when you hit it, allowing you to "walk on water," so to speak. The article linked to a non-English video of the liquid, but it’s amazing to just to watch it. Check it out:
This fluid is called a Non-Newtonian fluid. The Wikipedia article is nice and short.
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