WordPress Hubris Shows in 2.6 Upgrade Fiasco

The WordPress 2.6 upgrade contained a bug in the upgrade script that destroyed the entire Categories list for many bloggers - as it happens I was one of them on a different blog. Fortunately David Cumps figured out what had happened in the database update, and his post, combined with its many comments, helped many find the way to restore their data.

For the answers to this issue, see his post,Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Fix Missing Categories.

Victory Gardens Instead of Lawns

It wouldn’t take much to get used to having no lawn, if you could pick some homegrown veggies and sit in the shade and eat them. You’d rinse them in the Koi pond first, maybe. I’ve been thinking about re-landscaping my back yard, a meditation garden is good, but having some snacks on the vine sitting around too would be even better.

Food is junk in America nowadays. So how to survive in the future? Maybe we could all grow a lot of our own food, and join local co-ops for other staples. I bet we’d start looking more healthy.