Ed McMahon, Farah Faucett and Michael Jackson

Yesterday morning on my bike ride I was listening to the radio instead of mp3's and they said that Ed McMahon died from cancer.  That was sad but I knew he was dying so I hope he is at peace.  My condolences go out to his family.

But I just heard that Michael Jackson died!  What?!  OMG I can't believe it.  That was so unexpected.  Wasn't he just going to make his 10th come back?  Well, same goes for him as with Ed, he is at peace now and he doesn't have to worry about his looks anymore or his pedophile charges anymore.

Ok if that wasn't enough then I heard about Farah Faucett.  Ok now they've gone too far.  Farah is dead too?  That is so sad.  Ok I also knew about her cancer and I thought she was doing good.  My condolences go out to her family.

They say it always happens in threes right?  Well, I hope that Blanket and MJ's other kids go to a good home, like maybe their mother who they should've been with the whole time.

As I said, my condolences go out to the family of all the recently deceased.

WordPress Update

If anyone tried visiting my blog today they may have noticed that it wasn't accessible.  I was trying yet again to update my WordPress blog to the next version which is supposed to be better.  I really don't care about the new features, what I care about is getting that stupid notice at the top of the screen off.  Also one of my plugins is telling me that it won't work until I update WP to 2.8.

One of the things that I was told to do before updating is to deactivate all my plugins before attempting to update and for some strange reason that keeps slipping my mind.  I don't know why but I've deactivated EVERYTHING so that I may proceed.  If it doesn't work again then screw it, I will just deal with my plugins not working and with that warning at the top of my control panel.

UPDATE: Ok, I finally got it all working again and the upgrade is installed.  Here is what happened.  I am a hard headed idiot who cannot follow directions that's what happened.

The first time I tried doing the upgrade I read the full instructions and at the very beginning it said clear as day "deactivate all your plugins first" so what do I do?  I don't deactivate all my plugins, I just proceed with the upgrade.  Then I had to delete it all and reupload my backup then I tried upgrading again WITHOUT deactivating my plugins then again it didn't work so I had to delete it all and reupload my backups.

So today I did the same exact thing lol.  Finally after I made the above post I did it again lol.  Then after I reuploaded everything AGAIN I decided to deactivate all my plugins and did the upgrade and it worked.  However, as I was reactivating plugins things started going south again so I was luckily able to click back and deactivate them.  So I went and reactivated them one at a time while looking at the blog site in another tab, I kept hitting the refresh button to make sure it was all working.  There were a few plugins that I lost that were not compatible with WordPress 2.8 but I don't mind.

Those plugins are:

1. Global Translator which I can find another one that will work for those who read my blog but do not speak english.


2. Custom Smilies... what?  I can't smile in my posts anymore?  Well I'm gonna have to find some new ones then aren't I?


3. Flickr - This actually didn't cause any issues but I just never use it so I got rid of it.


4. WordPress Greet Box - This is something that would greet my visitors from any website they came from like for example if you came here from Google it would say hi google person or whatever it would say lol.  Yeah, I don't need that.

So that's it.  I'm going to try to get number 1 and 2 back soon.