Upgrades ahoy! at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Well I spent some time last night upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1 and K2 Beta Two R167 along with updating some backend plugins and removing old ones that no longer work for the moment, like XrisXros. Sadly this means the blog now only autoupdates to just my LiveJournal and not to my MySpace blog.

Also, due to how WordPress now handles URL rewrites, instead of letting the Apache module do the heavy lifting the extended live archives plugin I’m using is borked until Arnaud or the WordPress devs do something to fix the issues in the code that are causing these issues. Some folks have downgraded to WordPress 1.5.2 but at this stage thats not really a viable option for me considering what a pain in the ass that would be. So I will just stick it out for now, I’m sure things will get better in the next month.
Good news however is that Gallery 2 has 2.1 RC1 out out and when that becomes a stable release I’ll be uprading to it because then the Gallery2 API will finally be rid of the problems with dealing with a Gallery on a different URL subdomain compared to WordPress for its integration CMS plugin system. What this means is that in addition to the tab at the top that links to my photo galleries I will also be able to have a section in the sidebar to the right that will have a random assortment of my photos showing, updated each time a person loads the site.

This weekend also marks the return of the Strategicon gaming convention to the Westin up by LAX. I’ll likely be there all weekend hanging out with old friends I havent seen in a while and kicking their asses at Unreal Tournament 2004 among other things. Should be a good test for the new (and last AGP) video card I got to replace the old 9600 Pro 128MB.

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

If your viewing this site with Internet Explorer it may not look correct because IE is horrible about following W3C web standards properly or consistently. I suggest you try browsing the Internet with Firefox. It is much better and not as vulnerable to security flaws as IE can be.