Well, that was interesting.<\/p>\n
Honest – it worked so well in rehearsal!<\/p>\n
An attempt to update the site display code ended pretty disastrously last night.\u00a0 We backed up the whole site – which brought back our old template.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Shrugs).<\/p>\n
Part of the problem is that I haven’t updated WordPress (the content manager, the program that does all the display-fu for the blog) since I installed it after the, um, 2006 elections.\u00a0 Since there’ve been, er, three or four major releases since then, and there’s been no maintenance on this particular version in well over a year, it’s high time I updated things.<\/p>\n
Which usually means things are going to break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But if it’s raining this weekend, I’ll be updating the code, and then getting to work on perhaps updating the site’s “look and feel” for the first time since, ahem, 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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