Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie

Dear reader(s)… brokenbuild.com/blog is getting upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 courtesy of Matt Michie. Please let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary in the next few days.

I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader months ago and was planning on adding a linkblog feed here that combined del.icio.us with shared items, but I’m lazy… so for now go subscribe to my Google Reader shared items.

I spent too much time upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 this morning. This included shifting feedburner feeds around due to the way the new feedburner plugin works. Please let me know if you see anything that isn’t quite right. Thanks.

I updated to Wordpress 2.0.3 to address security problems. It seems that it doesn’t play well with Markdown syntax so some rendering might be a little bit off.

The specific problem is yet to be determined but I’ve see the following two things so far:

Markdown angle bracket linking is broken.

Any http followed by […]

I added the Pmetrics plugin so, if you notice anything going horribly wrong please leave a comment, email, or call me. Thanks!

My domain is registered through Joker and I’ve let them also host the DNS… I thought, “Boy, if they run a domain registrar their DNS servers should have better uptime than what I could achieve.” Nope. Over the past couple of days they have been up and down. For more info read […]

I’ve updated the Permalinks, switched feeds to FeedBurner and started tracking stats using Performancing Metrics.

Permalinks

I changed the permalink structure:

From WordPress Custom http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/21/sample-post/ To Mod_Rewrite http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/03/21/sample-post/

I haven’t taken the time to verify everything works… if it’s broken, let me know.

FeedBurner

The feeds are now served up by FeedBurner because I’m into data porn. Let me […]