I just upgraded the software running the back-end to WordPress 2.3.2 and inadvertently deleted my side bar with my personalizations.
Sigh. Measure twice, cut once.
Yes, I have a back up, but still there is that whole, “pay attention!” thing dancing around in the back of my head…
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The next version of WordPress (2.3) is scheduled to be released on the 24th. Aaron Brazell has helpfully posted 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3, which covers some of the new features like integral tagging, update notifications, redirection, post workflow improvements, multiple category widgets and the new pluggable RSS library. I have no opinion on the changes to $wpdb->prepare(). I tend to ignore things I so completely do not comprehend. 
Folks using other things like Blogger or folks using WordPress on wordpress.com need not be concerned.
ABFH tagged me (thanks!) with the 8 Random Things Meme which is, as they say, going around.
The rules: (again with the rules!)
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. [this tantamount to asking an Aspie to "go be spontaneous!" --ed.]
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
This should be interesting to all involved!
1. I am allergic to oranges.
2. I learned to swim when I was very young, too young to have any memory of not being able to swim.
3. I have been way too interested in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien for far too long. Besides multiple copies of nearly everything JRRT put out and a great deal of the commentary associated with Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien himself, I have all of the books his son Christopher has put out concerning his father’s works. And I’ve read them all. That’s a muscle you don’t get to flex much…
4. I never know how to answer those coworkers and NT friends of friends that make some supposedly funny or ribald comment and then ask me, “You know what I mean?” I never know what they mean. I seldom know what to say, but I often know what to write.
5. By choice, I lived out of my 1961 VW Beetle in a tent and sleeping bag from 1981 to 1985. I was a field archaeologist and it was just easier to be a nomad.
6. I don’t miss the high humidity and mosquitoes I remember from the Mid-western summers in Kansas, Missouri or Illinois. I do, however, miss fireflies like crazy.
7. Few things are better on a hot summer’s day than sitting under a shade tree drinking iced tea in a mason jar. Add chilled ripe tomatoes picked off the vine this morning and it goes to 11.
8. I really dislike wearing long pants. With the exception of a stint from 2000-2004, I have been able to wear shorts to work since 1991.
I’ll tag eight other people, uh, soon.