This blog is due for an upgrade, to the latest version of Wordpress and to a new design.

Hopefully I’ll be able to upgrade the back end today, and work on the design later.

El Jardin de la Nina Maria and Serra Boston are due for upgrades too.

Upgrades upgrades everywhere…

UPDATE 8/23: Upgraded the blog; thanks again to Bluehost the upgrade went smoothly and is now running on SimpleScripts.

Last year I made a New Year’s resolution to write one blog post per day.

So how’d I do? Not particularly well.

The first 5 months started well enough. 1 blog post a day - even if I didn’t have something to write I put up a link or a photo.  After that I kept it up a bit, using this blog’s archive to make sure every blog post had a different number.  There were a few good posts, but in general I think I generated more noises than signals.

I also think that blogging can be a sign of idleness, rather than activity.  This year I’ve been more active than ever: Ireland, Austin, the Eucharistic Congress, Serra Boston.  Working extra hours and coming into my own on the job.

This year, it’s more about the content.   Less frequent posts, but what posts there are should be more substantial.

As of February 23, 2008:

1. Upload photos from last week’s Ireland trip to Flickr
2. Fix the home page of www.jobriga.com - it disappeared one day, probably due to mistaken uploads/downloads on my part.  Due for a redesign anyway.
3. Recover from head cold picked up on the last day of Ireland trip
4. Blog more often
5. Finish cooking class
6. Finish the amazing new translation of War & Peace that I started in Ireland
7. Keep an eye on the Boston Eucharistic Congress site which I released before leaving for Ireland
8. Bulk up web site - more portfolio items, more journal entries, more individual sections and pages

Lots of ideas; little time to execute them.

I deleted the ELGG and Facebook feeds.

My little experiment in customized publishing channels wasn’t really worth it - I don’t blog often enough to justify the feeds, and I think they’re cluttering up the category listing on the right.  It’s also a bit of a pain to check off “Facebook” whenever I want to send a note to my Facebook account.

From now on, all blog posts go to Facebook, and the category list should look way cleaner.

Upgraded Wordpress to the latest version. The new theme looks fine; glad I won’t have to fix it over the weekend.

Various plugins stopped working; I got errors about post categories and found this post from Wordpress.  I deactivated and deleted some plugins and now it works like a charm.

Some fixes may not come up till I get to play with the site a bit more, but overall it looks like the upgrade went smoothly.