Monday was a federal holiday, and we took advantage of a nice day to drive to Petaluma. Lex wanted to visit the Baker Seed company, which sells heirloom seeds that are non-GMO and non-hybrid out of a store that used to be a giant marble-edificed bank. She had a good time browsing the seed selection while Ed and Thor took a walk down Main street and along the waterfront.
WordPress is turning into quite a learning experience for me. After last night’s joy revolving around the version upgrade, I thought things would be smooth sailing for a while. Then today I tried to post about Google Latitude on the iPhone. I took some screen shots and attempted to upload them to my site. The upload attempt failed with an “Error saving media attachment” message. Unfortunately this is not very descriptive, and without additional diagnostic information I was at a bit of a loss.
So it turns out that upgrading WordPress is quite easy, but fraught with a danger known as the WSOD, the White Screen of Death. After some frustrating hours of trying to fix this problem when I upgraded tonight, I finally ran across Manual Upgrade of WordPress. This page takes you through the process in excruciating enough detail that important steps are not missed. Lesson learned: you need to be more detail oriented about this than I am.