July Site Update

It’s the second of the month! That means: It’s monthly “Updates” time, where I tell you about the goings-on down in the [not really real] office and server headquarters…  (I really ought to take a picture of that mess of wires.)

During a backup last month, the total content (including all comments, posts, tag and special data) of ZylBlog reached 893.5 KB (914970 bytes). It might not seem like a lot, but 893.5KB of text is a LOT of information.

On June 20th, ZylBlog was upgraded to WordPress version 3.0 with success and no downtime, and completed in less than 30 seconds. New handy feature: “Updates” manager, making all updates appear in the same location.
Immediately after the upgrade to 3.0, the new update manger informed me that I had an update to JQ Theme version 3.4. The theme installation did not complete correctly resulting in everything being unreadable, and was replaced with a temporary theme until fixed.

On June 30th, I gave up on trying to fix the JQ theme. The problem is buried too far down in the coding of WordPress. Instead, I modded another theme and introduced a new header image.

No server outages (over 10 minutes) occurred this month.

The Popular Stuff:

1. playonlinux – ZylstraBlog –
2. Accordion Fingering Chart (bass) | ZylstraBlog –
3. Beethoven 9th Symphony Stretched for 24 Hours – ZylstraBlog –
4. the sims 3 – ZylstraBlog –
5. play on linux – ZylstraBlog –
6. Advantages of Linux over Windows to the average user

Things on the To-Do List:

• Stop posted ads from showing up in the RSS feed.
  I get paid to make pages that have ads, I don’t get paid to deliver the ads to your RSS reader.
• Get a new server (this has been sitting in the think tank for a while now). Need of a server will become more and more prevalent in the future, and it is my goal to replace the current server before any problems occur.