Sirius Stuff

is that I can’t run it because my host is running MySQL prior to 4.0.   Tried doing the upgrade and it sort of worked … but not really.  So I reverted back to 2.0.6 and found 2.0.7 which is what we’re running now.  Really have to get credit to the folks at WordPress - they have made a solid piece of software that’s easy enough to work with that many people have made plug-ins … but it handles stuff like 2.0.6->2.1->2.0.7 without messing up.  Very comfortable feeling, relying on it.

10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 » Technology, Blogging and New Media is a good summary of key changes.

Merging of Links and Categories […] While those philosophies can be discussed in other posts, the important
thing to recognize is that the Categories table is now prepopulated
with a Blogroll category and all links are assigned, by default, to the
blogroll category.

That’s actually something I’d like to have.  Trying to make two sets of categories is a pain.  Much nicer to link to Wordpress.org in the blogging category, etc.

So I just need to figure out how to back up my blog, then make WordPress work on a different port.  Yeah, easy-peasy.  But I will get to it so I can see what the other features are like.

I enjoy reading 360digest when I get a chance. Not only is my brother-in-law Dave a newly-minted real estate agent but the house next door was up for sale for a while recently. Real estate is one of those things that we all have to deal with, because we all need a place to live.

Anyway, I was amused to read that on the blog this quote:

In Portland, Ore., $300,000 means a clean and simple floating home on the Pacific ocean

Ummm, it would not be a clean and simple home. Because the Pacific Ocean is 90 miles away from Portland, which is on the Columbia and Willamette rivers.

100 years ago, Portland was a more significant city than Seattle because of those rivers. It was simply easier to float things up and down the rivers than to try to move them across land. With trucks and interstates and container ships, that’s changed significantly. Now it’s important to have deep water and make it easy for big ships to navigate into docks as quickly as possible. So new Portland is “little sister” to Seattle. Which never lets us forget it.

I’ve never really understood the differences between “pingback” and “trackback”.  Google likes to display older articles, which has interesting effects  The first thing that I found that tried to explain the differences was published more than 3 years ago and has way more detail than I want.  But this whitepaper led me to more resources on pingback and trackback.

If I can summarize:

Pingback

• Just ping a blog (or whatever) with your own blogging software
• No detail about what you said about them
• Receiver doesn’t link back to you

Trackback

• Details about what was said
• Receiver can link back if they want. 

SixApart has a trackback technical doc that explains more.