I’ve been using Twitter quite a lot in the meantime (as you can see by my sidebar), but there are things that I can’t get into 140 characters.  I’m especially thinking about my progress in learning Japanese.  I’ve read a lot of advice that having a learning blog helps keep you honest and allows you to track your progress.  Plus there are a lot of tools that I’m using and creating that I’d like to document as I go.  So I think I shall resume blogging here.

The upgrade only had a two bits of terror, once when I discovered going to WordPress 3 broke my theme so badly I couldn’t get to the admin pages, and when I discovered my database server had too old a version of MySQL.  Fortunately, I had a database backup and another server I could try.  However, the database import failed, which I eventually worked out was because the backup was a .gz file in a .zip file – a compressed archive in a compressed archive.  Naturally PHPMyAdmin threw a bit of a wobbly when I asked it to import that.  Once I worked out that little issue, and added two likes of code to my theme, all was well.

I make no promises.  But I can now at least blog if I choose!

I still have a few things to work out, like putting my own image up in the corner there, but it looks like it works all in all, and it even keeps the old Blogger permalinks (because I know you all have every single one of my posts bookmarked so as to forever capture my deathless prose).