The Severed Cortex

Link: http://www.drewmoo.com

Hats off to my hosting provider Netfronts for their outstanding response time to all my tech issues.  They moved me to Linux servers, gave me SSH access, and upgraded mySQL DB's from 4.0 to 5.1, all with lightning speed.

Upgrading my blog software turned out to be much more involved than I thought.  This is what happens when you run software that is three major versions behind.  I moved from version 0.9.2 to the latest release version 3.3.0 rc1.  If I tried to do this without some tech knowledge I would have been hosed.  Luckily I have some tech skills and luckily I've seen the upgrade software movie before.  I knew the best way would be to set up a development blog and mySQL database on my laptop and test the upgrade that way.  Now I actually will be able to test on a development box before pushing changes to production, which will be new for me.

Over the next several weeks I'll be looking to apply a new skin and css styling, as well as just catching up on all the stuff that's been going on.  And, of course, I'll be testing out all the cool things the blog will have to offer like: embedded YouTube and Google video, Twitter interaction, hooks into Amazon.com to earn reseller credit, mp3 support, much better spam protection, and tons of other cool things.