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8 F%$&ING things

Wow it's been a while since these tagging posts have gone round so I guess it was only a matter of time.Mike tagged Justin who tagged me. Joy. So here goes:1. I am an athiest... not a GO (Greek Orthodox).2. I went to a Catholic school where I was the first non-catholic Head Prefect in the schools history.3. Believe it or not, I played two years of first team rugby. I may be small but I be fast!!4. I am a pseudo-geek. The type of geek who hangs around geeks and tries to be a geek but has few geek qualities.5. Tattoos are addictive and I am an addict. I have three and am moving on to my entire left shoulder this year. Pictures will follow when the tattoo does.6. Both sets of grandparents had arranged marriages, I have been fortunate enough to avoid that tragedy so far!7. I have sadly never traveled to ANY African country outside of South Africa. yet I have visited almost every continent in the world.8. I am a capitalist through and through. Yet I often wonder if communism is the way forward.And one for good measure. I hate guns, with a passion. But I want to know how to use any and all types just in case.I'm not tagging anyone for this. If you want to do it, feel free. This is an open invitation.

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Wordpress v2.3 - Tags, Posts and more

Last night with the gracious assistance of one Hartman, I upgraded SA Rocks to Wordpress v2.3.To be honest, this process is not simple for an ignoramus such as myself. It involves database backups, theme backups (which I neglected to do) and plugin deactivation. Sounds pretty easy, but when your entire blogs history is dependant on your capabilities you start to doubt those capabilities.But nevertheless I went forward with the upgrade. I was going to install Ultimate Tag Warrior to handle all my tagging on the various posts, but alas I was disuaded because the new WP has built in tagging capabilities.So here is my immediate impression of the new WP upgrade:1. Posts are easier to manage in the admin section. You can search by status, date, author, category or simply enter a search term. This I love.2. Built in tagging. This is a brilliant update that has been made. I love tagging and this makes it doable right there in your post editor.3. Plugin updates. These have become automated. Now before you get all happy about that, it simply means that you are automatically told when a new update is available for your installed plugins. This might not seem like a great improvement, but wow what a time-saver.I am having some issues with the tagging process on SA Rocks. For some reason when I publish a post with tags, the tags don't actually click through to anything buy an error page. Does anyone have any advice?Then the next stupid thing that I hastily screwed up was my categories. WP v2.3 offers you the ability to make your categories, tags. I wasn't 100% sure what this meant, and hell, I'm still not sure. But what I do know is that out of my carefully crafted 40 or so categories, I am now only left with about 6 (4 of which I recreated) after "converting" them to tags.Now that they are tags, can someone tell me what the hell that means for my blogging?That's my only major gripe with the upgrade. Otherwise I had a good guide through the process and happy with the results.A word of advice: Ensure that you back up EVERYTHING that you want to keep as is on your current blog before upgrading. I didn't save a copy of my most recent updates on the SA Rocks theme and I had to do some of them over. Not fun.

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