Prepoceros

Things look a bit different around here, I realize. (If they don’t, you probably need to refresh and/or clear your computernet thing.) Don’t get used to it, though, because they’re about to get differenter.

I We John just updated my version of WordPress for the first time since I created this blog THREE YEARS AGO. We skipped all the way from 1.5.1.3 to 2.5. Dealing with comment spam had been unbearable for months now—I get about a hundred spam comments a day, and none of the plugins worked because I was so far behind the times, so I’ve been sorting through them all by hand to pick out the occasional real live commenter.

Updating, in addition to its many benefits, meant that my theme reverted back to its original version, before I painstakingly (because I am bad at CSS, not because the changes I made were all that complicated) tweaked the color scheme and added the rhino header. I could recover my modified theme, but I figure that after three years, it’s probably time for a change.

I could’ve used the default blue theme as a placeholder, but if anyone new stumbles across my blog, I’d rather have them think I *tried* to spice up my site design and did poorly than think I didn’t try at all. Hence the red red RED theme, which was the first half-decent one I saw on wordpress.net, and which will be gone as soon as I can come up with something I like better. So you can expect to be seeing it for the next six months.

Tags: miscellany

This entry was posted on Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 12:51 am and is filed under miscellany. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.