For about a good half-hour today I was very close to freaking out about possibility of loosing my blog. It started off when I took a look at what end users see when they go to comment on my site. I wasn’t very pleased as the comment “page” lost its sidebar for whatever inexplicable reason (I have yet to sort out why it acted the way it did). So a couple of productive CSS tweaking hours later I had something decent to update my blog with. So I thought to myself, “Well since I’m already updating the look for the blog, why don’t I also update to the latest WordPress build?” And thus began a half-hour of frustration of trying to track down why the blog wouldn’t work. The database was fortunately fine so I knew that in the absolute worst case scenario I could always recover the old data. I finally solved the problem via the trusty server error logs which effectively told me it was a permissions problem. An FTP session or two later, everything was sorted out. I was, once again, a happy WordPress user.
More CSS tweaks to come fairly soon as I’m still not fully satisfied (what designer ever is?) with how things look.