I recently downloaded the latest WordPress app for the iPhone and so far, I’m digging it. The ability to moderate comments and the landscape keyboard are very welcome additions. I’m sure there are many more awesome features that I’m missing, but it makes it much easier to post from the iPhone. Maybe a future release will allow easy addition of links.

I just updated to WordPress 2.6.1 and managed to mess up several times. Firstly, I had the wp-config for another site saved locally, so that got uploaded, handing control over to a completely different site. I found a backup of this site’s config, but it was from a time before I had destroyed and rebuilt the site, so I appeared to have lost about 5 month’s worth of updates. FInally, I noticed that I had another set of tables with a different prefix in the database, so I made the necessary change and the site was alive once more.

On a more positive note, I updated the way I include my  Twitter updates.

A little over a month ago, I mentioned here that having the WordPress app on my iPhone might make me more likely to update this site in a somewhat more regular manner. As you can probably tell, that didn’t exactly happen. For the last while, I’ve been quite busy at work resolving issues, installing systems and planning new installs. By the time I got a couple of free moments, I had so little inspiration that I didn’t want to write anything here.

I’ve been playing with a new WordPress site, The Guild of Saint Patrick, into which I will be integrating both bbPress (once the 1.0 version is ready) and ZenPhoto (almost done, but I have some more CSS to tweak). I’m still undecided as to whether I’ll be installing ZenPhoto here.

I downloaded the WordPress app for iPhone just to try it out. There’s a possibility that it will make me more likely to update as I have my iPhone in my pocket pretty much all the time anyway. So far I’m liking it.

On the iPhone front, I have ordered myself an 8GB iPhone 3G from AT&T (I didn’t want to deal with Arden Fair or the Apple store at this time and the sales guy was very nice), so I’m currently playing the waiting game as my new phone does its best Godot impression. I also picked up a new SIM with a 559 area code and the very basic Nokia 2610 to use as a support cell phone in place of the awful Lucky Goldstar flippy dealie on Virgin Mobile that I had before.

Now it’s time for some dinner before the drive to Fresno for work.

I settled on Beautiful Day 2.0 by Arcsin as a theme, but I switched out the header image since the one that was in there was a little too fluffy for my taste. I might swap out the clouds for some planes too, but I haven’t made up my mind on that one yet.

As you can see to the right, I do still exist. I’m in the middle of something right now which should translate into an exciting change, so I’m going to try and combine that with updates of this site. I’m also trying to settle on a theme, but I haven’t really found one that jumps out at me immediately. I sort of like Colorvoid by Arcsin, but there are some other great themes on there too. I’ll probably switch out the header image once I’ve chosen something, just to add my own little touch.

Something was screwy in the database, so I took the Aliens approach, which was to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It was, after all, the only way to be sure. Now it’s back up and running for the most part. I’ll examine it for further damage later on.