Writing Angel

WordPress

I have a new blog at Writing Consultation (WC) and I decided to upgrade WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1 but unfortunately things didn’t work out the way I expected earlier.

First of all, I thought that I can use the Automatic Update but it didn’t work at all.

So, I decided to manually upgrade.

To make things worse, I messed up with the whole database and WC ended up down for some time.

What happened was:

• I deleted all the files in the server (I thought I was supposed to delete all the files)
• Thank goodness, I have a back up of everything I need to restore my blog so once I restored my blog, I took some time to read through WordPress guidelines over and over again.

Basically, what I did after reading the guidelines was to give it a try again (even though I spent hours just working through the trial-and-error).

Step-by-Step guideline from a noob:

1. Because I am using WordPress 2.7 so I need to keep these files intact:

• wp-content
• .htaccess
• wp-config

2. I also use Sitemap (XML) so I have to keep the file as well.

3. Everything else not mentioned here is to be deleted.

4. Deactivate all the plug-ins.

5. Download WordPress 2.7.1 and unzipped the file.

6. Upload all the missing files to the server (to replace those files that have been deleted).

7. Go back to http://site.com/wp-admin to check if everything is ok.

8. Activate plug-ins after you have updated those with new updates (or keep the old ones even if without new updates).

9. View your site to check for any errors.

10. If no errors, you are done! If there is any errors, check with WordPress Support.

Lorelle from WordPress helped me through the upgrade. If you have any questions, you can ask Lorelle on her blog.

Good luck in upgrading!

Update 17/07/09: Upgrading to version 2.8 and 2.8.1 is a total breeze.

I am still a fan of HP and I am still mourning for the loss of my precious “HP books (1-5)”.

I love HP and all the hocus pocus magic around it.

With Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall, they are the type of teachers I like (unfortunately these teachers are practically non existence).

Although I can get the HP books for “free” now but it won’t be able to replace my first hand HP books that I bought using my own savings when I was a school kid.

Twilight isn’t much of my favourite except for Edward Cullen – he is cute. He is also the boy known as Cedric Diggory in HP. Since he is related to HP, I just can’t resist myself (sorry, my dear boy).

I love Underworld simply because I love the fight between Vampire and Werewolves. Kate Beckinsale is hot, just as hot as Rhona Mitra.

So, what is going on with these popular movies?

First of all, you will be happy to know that HP 6 (Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince) is coming out soon.

*spoiler: If you are still wondering who is The Half Blood Prince – it is Professor Snape.

Secondly, it is said that Twilight will have a sequel coming out but not quite sure about the rumour yet. (update: Yes, it is known as New Moon – in November 2009)

Underworld 3 had just released so are you thinking what I am thinking? Underworld 4? What else to tell in the sequel? Basically nothing much is left unless if they want to talk of rubbish but then again, who knows what they might come up with later?

Ok, so here goes my movie ramblings. I love to watch movies. If only the movie tickets aren’t that expensive.

*sigh*

Update 17/07/09: I am so addicted to Twilight at one point I spent two sleepless nights just so I could read all 4 books as soon as possible. It was a while only though.

Want something interesting? Check out the leaked video of Harry Potter 6 movie and you will get an idea of what to expect. It is rather dark and blurry but at least you know what you will get from the movie.

video removed – copyright

Better quality than the one above.

video removed – copyright

Sorry to say that the videos are no longer available thanks to Tina L for informing me.

Anyway, the video is supposed to show some scenes on Bellatrix Lestange and Dumbledore. It is all fiery and rather exciting.

I never thought of writing about my top posts and today I am going to reveal what people read the most on the blog. It is a surprise for me, didn’t think that these posts would actually be the most popular. Still, here it goes the TOP 5 posts from my blog:

Hellboy 2: The Golder Army – 5000+ views

Harry Potter Prequel and All Related to HP – 4000+ views

Animals Need Help – 1000+ views

Nicholas Rogers – Long Forgotten -  900+ views

Dirty Sexy Money Theme Song, Money by Jesca Hoop -  900+ views

So, there you go. Top 5 posts since April 2008.

I don’t have much readers but at least I have a space to rant about my life.

I really need to just release my anger in some form and perhaps this is the best way since I get to listen to myself as well (inner self).

I used to keep a traditional diary to jot down everything about my life. Now, with blogs being so popular, it is time to embrace the modern way of keeping a diary.

Still, I never forget to smell the flowers. Hopefully I will be able to keep on blogging.

Smell The Flowers - Live A Happy Life

I am working at this moment (as I wrote this). Usually I listen to music when I am working but tonight, I am feeling that I need something other than music to accompany me tonight so I decided to search for free audio book on google and I got this list of results:

Top 3 results:

1. LibriVox

   LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. … Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. …
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2. AudioBooksForFree.com

   Text only page optimized for browsing audiobooks using text browsers or screen readers. ….. Top of Page, Help Us For Free, Copyright All Rights Reserverd.
   www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp – 73k – Cached – Similar pages –

3. www.AudioBooksForFree.com entrypoint

   Audio Books in MP3 format. All audiobooks are FREE in 8 kb/s. No BANNERS, No POPUPS, NO SPYWARE, No VIRUSES, No EMAIL-HARVESTING.
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So, I decided to check out LibriVox and surprisingly, I found a large collection of Public Domain collection of books available in audio format.

I checked out L. Frank Baum’s work on The Enchanted Island of Yew.

It is simply amazing and I am so addicted to audio books now. There are so many titles and while these are published in the before the 90’s, they are worthwhile to be listened.

Give it a try and perhaps volunteer to lend your voice and be part of the LibriVox community.