blogging is not a bowl of cherries

Something (or someone) clobbered my wordpress install last night or this morning. I restored the missing files from backup, and reported the problem to “hostrocket.com”:http://www.hostrocket.com support. Their response was that I shouldn’t have world-writable files (I don’t) and that I should keep my software up to date (I’ve been *meaning* to upgrade).

It was clearly more work to get the site really working than just copying the backup directory over the new directory, so I decided this was the day to do the upgrade. It was fairly painless, and I have my sidebar back looking pretty much the way I want it to.

I believe that most of the differences between the new appearance of the site and the old one will be removed when I get around to redoing the changes I had made to the default stylesheet, I will do this soon, but not before lunch.

I couldn’t stand the small type, so I did it before lunch, but it’s now pretty big and clunky looking. But I’ll really have lunch before fixing that.

I have it adjusted some. I may still tinker with it, as the lines seem quite loose, and I haven’t looked in any browsers but Firefox. Let me know what you think.
Meanwhile, I apologize to anyone who finds the type too small; I think the big thing I did to the CSS was to remove all the absolute type size directives so that people (like me) who set their browsers to use larger type sizes than standard will get the larger type sizes.

In any case, let me know if you have problems, and I’ll do my best to fix them.