Regular visitors will be used to seeing graphical displays showing where visitors to this site are located. Enough of that I say. We are one world, we share the same planet, we are brothers and sisters and our nationalities are of no importance (apart from the French). I refuse to highlight our geographic differences, dear children of the world.  More importantly perhaps, I am too mean to renew the subscription for the service.

Unfortunately, WordPress refused to allow me to edit the sidebars. So I had no choice but to undertake a long overdue update to WordPress, from 2.6 to 2.8.4. Many are the horror stories of these upgrades, especially from Billy who is too lazy to do it himself and employs third-world artisans to do the job for a pittance. This takes weeks and is rarely successful, even now his banner is missing from the last attempted upgrade. I am therefore rather smugly pleased to announce that it took me less than half an hour; or rather it took rather less than half an hour for Smart Scripts to do it for me while I very cleverly clicked on the “upgrade now” button when prompted. I rule.

And if that was not enough excitement for one day, I dropped a bit of php code into the comments section to enable gravatars. Prompted by Billy, mine is a toilet seat because apparently I write about the flushing side of life more than I should.

And what does all this mean for you? Almost nothing.  Except you do now get a rather wonderful error message when you display a single post. Please treat that as a feature rather than a bug. Thank you.