Don’t Touch WordPress 2.5!

April 7, 2008 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment

Having read that WordPress 2.5 was out, I was curious to see what it was like, but I had also read that there were problems.

However, my curiosity got the better of me, and I went ahead and installed this new milestone release of my favourite blogging platform. Only, I installed WordPress 2.5 on a domain I’m not using at the moment, just to be on the safe side.

Boy, am I glad I did not go ahead and upgrade Blog from Italy to WP 2.5!

From the above comment you will have understood that everything is not rosy with WordPress’s latest and greatest. Oh no.

While WP 2.5 does work, you may well have problems adding images to posts. Sometimes it works, other times, most times, it just doesn’t and the new image insertion thingummy just sits there doing nothing until you get sick of waiting and close it down. You try again, and the same thing happens, and again. At least this is what happened to me.

Judging from the WordPress forums, I’m not the only one to be having problems, and I do not envy the brave few who have gone the whole hog and upgraded to WP 2.5 from the current version. Some hardy souls did this without creating a backup, and have lived to regret it.

So, do not let your curiosity and impatience get the better of you, unless you know what a local installation is, or you have some spare space on a server hard disk sitting around doing nothing.

Wait until the next version, watch the web and forums for problems, and then go for it - having backed up everything first - and that means database and all the WordPress files on your server.

You have been warned!!

Tags: blog, Blogging, Italy, problems, upgrade, Wordpress

Cheesed Off

March 26, 2008 · Filed Under Italian news · 6 Comments

The rubbish crisis that appears to have made Naples infamous the world over, has now been joined by a mozzarella crisis. A Buffalo Mozzarella crisis, to be more precise. As you may have seen from stories in the press the world over, one of Italy’s more prized delicacies, this delicious cheese has become the subject of a health scare.

That the mozzarella crisis is a direct result of the trash trouble is highly likely. Years of dumping toxic waste in the countryside around Naples plus copious doses of political inaction and mismanagement have not helped either. Sooner or later it was inevitable that the toxins would enter the food chain. ‘Sooner’ has now arrived.

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Not Nice

March 24, 2008 · Filed Under Milan - My Zone · 1 Comment

Yesterday I was out with our dog when I noticed another dog on the other side of the road. It was off its leash and appeared to have wondered into the road. The owners were a Chinese family, mother, father, and child in stroller. Unusual, I mused, you don’t see that many people of Chinese extraction with dogs.

Anyway, I continued, thinking for a moment that maybe a dog with a tendency to wander into the road should not be off its lead in a city. Oh well, it’s their dog, hopefully they know what they are doing, I hoped. Read more

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