The Agony without the Ectasy
May 4th, 2008My life has been so dominated by matters computing since my blog was blacked by Google because of a Chinese bug that had reached me from a not so slow boat from China, that I cannot even spell let alone write coherently. It is not only the hours of work that has been necessary it is the emotional strain. Since I know enough about computing to know that such bugs can lead to the horrors of identity theft, I had to be extra careful not to do anything which might make things even worse, by exposing my friends and readers to the horrors of identity theft.
That risk is now over, I hope. But in order to make my site more secure in future I have had to update to WordPress 5. Which meant, given my still imperfect knowledge of WordPress, that I have might have disabled myself from being able to blog at all, and lost the results of nearly two years work.
Yesterday, after several hours of work, Ii pressed the key which commited my site to the WP5. And then I pressed another key to get back into my blog. Only to get an error message. I thought I had fowled up but happily I had only made a minor mistake, which I was able to rectify.
Today, I was hoping to get back to writing blogs, and one part of my mind was already writing about the May Day massacre of Gordon Brown, the astonishing rise of the bicycling bonkers Boris Johnson, and how Obama is standing up to strain of the Presidential campaign, now that the racial undertones have erupted thanks to the further inflammatory statements, pedalled in many parts of the media, of his Pastor.
But I realise that before I can concentrate on the content of my blogs I have to spend more hours learing about the new version of WordPress.
Crises like these drive me to the manic side of my manic depressive temperament, which is exhiliarting, but also dangerous, because in manic overdrive, I am not always accessible to the needs of others around me.
It also leads me to try and do several things at once.
On Friday I had decided needed to know a lot more about WordPress. And I had discovered that WordPress developers run WordCamps, where they gather together to discuss and solve problems. There is one in Paris this weekend, and manic Bob wanted to jump on a plane at Exeter airport on Friday night and join them for the weekend. Until he realised that would have meant him spending most of his time on the logistics of getting there. Starting with finding out whether you actually can fly to Paris from Exeter and whether there are any seats on the plane.
So I have decided go to the first UK Word Camp, which is in Brimingham on 19 July. If you are interested the URL is http://wordcampuk.bluemilkshake.co.uk/.
You will have to type it in yourself. Because I have not yet learnt how to insert links into WP5.