So I had updgraded WordPress and thought I was up to speed. Then, today, I noticed there was a warning, telling people to immediately upgrade from the last upgrade, on account of somebody having hacked into the WordPress servers and actually altered the code in the files people were downloading from WordPress. Well, although I had recently upgraded, I hadn’t done the upgrade after that (being the hacked files upgrade). So, I went ahead and upgraded to the “latest and greatest”, hopping over the hacked files, hopefully, in the earlier upgrade that I hadn’t done, anyway. I’m sort of dizzy now from all the upgrading. It wasn’t just this blog, but also the family blog, plus a couple of others that I manage for some people in connection with their websites; not to mention a bulletin board or two.

Well, the WordPress upgrade seems to have gone okay. At the urging of Microsoft (via those urgent little popup messages about important updates that need to be installed) I finally relented and upgraded from IE 6 to IE 7. Overall, I have to say IE 7 is somewhat of an improvement. The tabs are nice; since I’m used to them from mostly using Firefox and whenever I’d use IE 6 for something I’d be looking for tabs a couple seconds before remembering IE 6 didn’t have any. But, I’ve just noticed that IE 7 has a problem displaying my “logo” image in the head of the blog. It shows a smidgen of the top of it, leaving one to wonder (if one didn’t know from previous visits) what it’s supposed to be. Not sure how to fix it. Firefox has a nice developer toolbar that lets you play with CSS in “real time”; great for debugging CSS oddities. IE 7, naturally, has no such plug-in. That I know of. All I know is, this little display anomaly only appears in IE 7; IE 6 had no such problem, Firefox doesn’t. This is interesting: AvantBrowser has the problem on the PC with IE 7 but the same version AvantBrowser doesn’t have the problem on the PC with IE 6. Oh, yeah, this is gonna take some thought. :scratchin:

One of the things about having a blog is maintaining it. One of the things about maintaining it is upgrading it when the program developers come out with a new release. So, I’ve just installed the latest WordPress release. I used to get a certain satisfaction from accomplishing such a feat. Now, it’s mostly just a chore. On the other hand, since this blog has virtually no readers other than myself, there’s little reason to do this sort of thing if not the satisfaction of just being able to do it. Yeah. I guess that’s right. :cool2: