The view of the beach from our undisclosed location. If I tell you where this beach is, I'd have to kill you.
I’m on vacation on the Cape. We’re having a blast.
But this isn’t about the fact that we walked along the beach at dusk and had it all to ourselves or the fact that it’s so quiet and peaceful at our undisclosed location that I never want to leave.
Instead this post is about WordPress for Android, which allows me to blog directly from my G2.
I know that blogging is purportedly on the decline and that I should express myself in 140 characters or less.
Sorry, I prefer throw-back tech when it comes to online personal communication and with Swype, a camera and the WordPress for Android app, I have everything one needs to stay stuck in mid-decade.
Well, now that it’s over, I can finally talk about it.
I got up Sunday morning, July 3rd, salivating over all the cholesterol-laden meats I was gonna burn…er…grill that day in celebration of the holiday. I was looking forward to my weekend breakfast of imported Nestle 2-in-1 coffee sachets (I prefer the Indonesian version) and peanut butter crackers (cheese-flavor orange crackers only).
But noooo…it wasn’t to be. An email alerted me to the fact that our corporate website, vuuch.com, was dead dead dead.
No problem, I thought. I’ll just reboot our EC2 instance and deal with it Tuesday.
No joy.
Panic sets in. The cracker crumbs mix with coffee drool and run down the side of my face. There’s no freakin’ website no matter how many times I restart the instance. It boots, it dies. It boots again, it dies harder.
“Calm down,” the inner voice says. “You’ll think of something.”
“Up yours, you optimistic fool. The damn thing is in rigor mortis. Start searching for the last database backup ’cause, baby, you are spending the day cooking up a new server, not burgers.”
“Just finish breakfast. Start defrosting the dogs. You’ll…wait a minute. What if…”
None of you really expect me to tell you exactly how I recovered the site do you? After all, if another bozo tries the same thing, I need something to give me an edge, don’t I?
Besides, the real purpose of writing this post is to try out the spankin’ new WordPress 3.2 before I upgrade all my other sites.
As the old saying goes, you can pwn some of the people some of the time, but you can’t help but love WordPress 3.2.
I know I’ve been very lax about blogging here because launching a whole new category of enterprise application development software is taking up all my time.
Still, I am compelled to stop for a moment and give WordPress2.5 maximum love for being a killer upgrade. Installation was a snap, and the single problem I had with uploading images was taken care of with one Google search.
In a word, awesome. Those VCs funding Joomla and Drupal are going to wish they’d never written the check.
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