K. has been complaining about the spam she gets in Comments in her blog so she turned off the Comments which is kind of a shame. So I decided to install akismet. Of course, it required WordPress 2.0 and she was still running 1.5. Somehow I never installed her blog using the dreamhost goodies so I had to upgrade myself…

First, found and installed a nice plugin to backup the database, made an extra copy of the entire folder, installed the new WP 2.04 and followed instructions. Pretty simple. Of course, 2.0.4 doesn’t work with K. theme so it’s all busted. They also removed some features like being able to choose the picture thumbnail size during upload which is LAME!

While messing around with dreamhost, I also accidentally forced wordpress on Plutinosoft to be upgraded to 2.0.3 which of course broke a few things like the StatCounter plugin for WordPress 1.0. After playing around with a new theme, I figured it out so I should be able to get statistics again. I was getting worried. No traffic yesterday! Well I haven’t posted anything new and fun anyways…

Meanwhile dreamhost has been very flaky these last few days. Apparently they had 2 major power outages judging from the email I received and their blog.