Yes, we paid a lot of money for our Breville kettle (Well, actually, “Grand-Maman and Grand-Papa
” paid a lot for our wedding present!) and, yes, I agree that it is very consumeristic of us to get such a fancy and expensive kettle. But I know good design when I see it, and the folks at Breville have out done themselves! I’m sure you’ll agree with me when you see the close up of what made my day when i opened the box of the kettle (I hadn’t noticed it in the store!).
And in case you care to see the whole Kettle, here it is!
I’ve been very reluctant to upgrade Wordpress because of the dreadful “backup
” that needed to be done in advance. My problem was not that I didn’t know how to backup my databases, but more that I am just simply too lazy to undertake the task. Well, also the fact that they mention it just scares me and makes me think that I may have to re-install lots and lots of things.
If you a little like me and you’re scared to try to upgrade your wordpress engine… well, fear no more! I did it in about 30 minutes, following wordpress’s superb three step process, and this including the upgrade of a handful of plugins (about 10 of them). Yes, among other things, Wordpress 2.3.3 will tell you when a plugin is out-of-date and which, to my surprise, helped me realize that most of my plugins were due for a tune up.
The nicest thing about this upgrade is that my site is now using a much more secure, powerful, and faster blogging engine. It also fixes some glitches with my new template K2 which were really annoying me. The problem was that when I was browsing categories, I would get the following error:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT wp_posts.post_date_gmt FROM
That was because the fine folks behind the latest K2 template were using the new mySQL database structure that Wordpress introduced in their version 2.3.
I am usually reluctant to install a new version because of all the little bugs that tend to come out. I specifically waited a little while before installing, but now that I know that it takes about 30 minutes to upgrade, I don’t think I’ll wait as long next time. I highly recommend moving to 2.3.3!!
