Well That's Odd
Every page on this blog aside from the front page was broken. I’m assuming something went awry in the last WordPress upgrade I did, since I slapped the upgrade onto the site in a fairly lackadaisical manner. Nuking the files on the server and grabbing fresh copies of WordPress and the plug-ins seems to have fixed whatever is wrong. The fact that this level of rubber-chicken waving appears to have solved the problem makes me thing there’s a SCSI chain involved somewhere.
The weird bit is that, despite the WordPress upgrade script explicitly telling me it didn’t touch the Db, my categories have all disappeared. I could start restoring from back-ups, figuring out exactly who did what, and then taking steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future– fuck it, my enthusiasm for PHP completely evaporated some time last month.
I’ll replace this blog with something quick and dirty (probably in Django) when I have a free day and then anything weird that happens will be my fault. But weird stuff won’t happen because it’ll be the most brain-dead, test-driven, simple blog engine I can possibly make. And hopefully the difference will be pretty much invisible from the outside. After all, comments were broken for the last who-knows-how-many weeks, and categories have just disappeared, so it’s not like I have any functionality to lose.
