So I just upgraded WordPress to version 2.6.

Outside of one issue that I resolved (I had to delete my cookies in FireFox 3 to be able to get back into the admin part of the site), things are looking good. Additionally, in the top-right corner of my admin screen, there is now (essentially) a turbo button (really it’s a link).

The turbo button allows you to download Google Gears, which allows you to download some or all of your web applications onto your desktop. I figured, hey, why not! It’s not supposed to really give WordPress new functionality, but it should speed things up, at least according to the release page.

We’ll find out! I downloaded and installed Gears, restarted my web browser, and then used the Turbo link, which proceeded to download several hundreds things (I dunno what), over the course of about a minute. The admin pages do look, now, to load a bit snappier. Hopefully I’ll be blogging in lightening speed from here on out!

So I somehow managed to kill my photos page.

Regardless of how I’m messing up my web site, you can still view pics of our recent 1st-birthday fun times by going to my flickr page:
Grace’s 1st Birthday (slideshow)

In an effort to make this site load faster, I could just reduce the number of images and plug-ins in use, but, instead, I’ve installed another plug-in to cache the pages/posts that you see. The plug-in is WP-SuperCache. I was very, very hesitant to use a caching plug-in, as my last go-around with WP-Cache caused nasty Internal Server Errors, as it has for many other users.
So far, so good, though, so if you ever see anything weird (e.g., partially loaded content) or any errors, please email me ASAP to let me knows. Thanks! You rock, and hopefully faster than you rocked before!

I have been busy of late, but that’s not my only reason excuse for not having posted much over the last few weeks. I’ve also been suffering from an inability to put up new posts through my site (having to resort to 3rd party tools like ScribeFire) due to this issue, which, as of today, is fixed!

Hooray! Here come the posts