Upgrade: good news bad news endless loop
Quick FYI for those who still haven’t gotten around to deleting the isoglossia feed from their RSS delivery system: we have grudgingly upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress following a warning from our hosting service that failure to do so within a week (last week) would result in the site being shut down, it having contracted somewhere, the slut, the blog platform equivalent of syphilis.
Oh, like your blog never got an STD.
The good news is two-fold: first, we’ve finally been forced into a positive change we would have happily put off forever, one which should make less likely any further webclap and 2) the upgrade penicillin actually worked, with only an hour or two of unforeseen friggery and relatively no swearing. This good news begets more good news, which is that since our ability to post has been retained where we were fully prepared for it to be lost forever, we now have a new appreciation for it and maybe a new perspective on the whole thing. The bad news, of course, is that the upgrade didn’t really work and now some serious maintenance needs to be done. This bad news generates more good news, which is 1) maybe now I’ll actually get around to doing the work which will make the site legible again and 2) if I’m going to do that I might also finally get around to the redesign (or at least a half-assed update to the look) which I have pointedly been not doing since August. The bad news is that I no longer have the ridiculous government job with almost no responsibilities whose vast oceans of utterly free time with unlimited internet access was responsible, more than anything except maybe Adam’s birth, for the genesis and growth of this site in the first place.
I don’t know when I’ll get around to doing this stuff I used to really enjoy doing, but the good news is that I do know I actually want to do it again, which is the first and most important part of the situation’s resolution.
Stand by, and hope your patience is rewarded rather than the other thing.
