Well, I’m gonna try. 

Tropical Storm Kammuri kept most of HK at home today.

Working from home right? Too far Tony?

Anyway, I decided on a bit of geekery. You know you missed it.I decided to upgrade my Wordpress installation from 2.3 to 2.6. Total disaster. The upgrade went fine at first, I could view the blog just fine. Couldn’t log in though. Known issue, but none of the suggested fixes worked for me. Time to roll back! However:

1. My database dump wouldn’t load (yeah, should have tested it first)
2. My hosting company had not been backing up the database!

Luckily, the awesome support dude at Liquid Web managed to fix my database file, so I’m back where I started. Shame, as Wordpress 2.5 and 2.6 look pretty nice. Will wait to see if they fix the upgrade issues.  

So where have I been?

• Busy.
• Lazy.
• New job.
• Boracay (oh, there’s a story).
• Tokyo. It’s the same as everywhere else, just a little bit different.
• Getting caught with The Lady In White by Private Dancer Doris. Woman scorned? Jeez. Never, ever, heard anything like it. One iPhone smashed against wall.
• Investigating awesome filesystems for a home fileserver. Spike - you should check it out!
• Went to the gym for the first time in a long time. Agony for 5 days.
• Watching: Rome, Battlestar Gallactica, Generation Kill, Mad Men, Tudors, RAF at War (LT - if you want to know how to rescue a downed Spitfire pilot, this is for you! In fact “this generally holds true for all fighters”), Carrier (I have a new found respect for the navy that prowl Wan Chai every 6 weeks or so).
• Reading: Feast For Crows, The Blade Itself, Red Seas Under Red Skies, Red Mars, Agent Zig Zag (LT - you will love this one too), The Skinner, Flashman and the Dragon, Watchmen, Batman: Dark Knight Returns, From Hell.
• Listening: Fort Minor, Simple Plan, Mobb Deep, Black Kids, One Republic, Elbow, Nas, Alphabeat, Kooks, Panic at the Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, Angels and Airwaves, +44.

Tip of the hat to Jimmy Two Times for many of the book and music recommendations.  

Well, I’ll try to be back more often. I gotta tell you the Boracay Typhoon Story and the Private Dancer Epic Fury Story.

Actually, Private Dancer Doris was supposed to be here this week, but her Cebu Pacific flight last Friday had engine problems and turned back to Manila. Now she’s too scared to fly. Well, at least I don’t have to worry about her biting my knob off.   

In a bit.