I should have done so before I left, I guess, but I didn’t think it would matter. Anyway, you can follow the remainder of my European exploits here. I’m not currently following anyone with my phone — perhaps I will once I return.

Interesting picture, but the </3 ASCII for a broken heart in the Flickr title was what really intrigued me.

This post was (should have been anyway) auto-posted while I’m traveling. I should be in Vienna, Austria and at some point taking a car ride to Graz. Happy Friday!

I’ll be traveling around Europe, mostly Austria and a little in Germany and the Netherlands, from this evening through the evening of August 30th. As such, my ability to communicate will be diminished.

I’ll acquire a local SIM card and post the number here if I get a chance. I’ll change my GrandCentral voicemail greeting so that it gives the number. Also, this and my other domains are in the process of being transferred between registrars. I had thought it would be done by now, but it’s not. Therefore, I’ve asked a friend to take care of the details while I’m away, but you may see some interruption in the availability of this and some of my other sites (like brocktice.com). Please accept my apologies in advance.

Assuming the site is up, I do hope to post pictures when I get the chance, and updates on how things are going.

If you need to get ahold of me while I’m gone, your best bet is to call my GrandCentral number, +1-(651)-967-7961, and leave me a message. I’ll be checking my voicemail regularly and will be able to call you back pretty cheaply. SMS to whatever my Austrian number is will also be a fast and economical method of getting ahold of me. If you choose to do that, please keep in mind that Austria is 6 time zones ahead of EDT, and 7 ahead of CDT.

i love flickr

Originally uploaded by omnia

Happy Friday everyone!

After ignoring many, many new WordPress versions, dreading upgrade complications, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to the very-much-different WordPress 2.6. This mostly went smoothly due to the use of the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.

Unfortunately, I did encounter one major hiccup, the details of which and solution(s) to are described here. Note that while the post only describes a fix to post category name problems, someone gives analogous directions for fixing link categories as well in the comments.

If you observe or experience any problems with the site post-upgrade, please let me know in the comments of this post, or by email. Thanks!
Apparently somewhere along the line, WordPress added tags. I’ve basically been using Categories as tags all this time, when what I really wanted was tags. Maybe I’ll write some SQL stuff to go through and convert categories to tags at some point.