Upgrading from WordPress 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0

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After the automatic upgrade failed, I tried to execute a manual update.  That failed and resulted in an “Error 500″ problem on the admin pages.  I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it.  Basically, I was able to fix it by clearing out wp-config.php and rebuilding it from wp-config-sample.php.   I used “wp-admin/setup-config.php" to effect the rebuild after I renamed the broken config file.  I saved the old config file by renaming it wp-config-old.php with my FTP client (FileZilla).  I edited the config file on my laptop with Adobe Dreamweaver, but any text editor should do.

I wrote this post after the fix, and also serves to test my posting ability.

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention is that I also had to disable and delete the security scan plug-in I had.  I think it was called WP-SecurityScan.  If you don’t disable it, you will get the “Error 500″ problem again.  I am hosted on a 1and1 linux based package.

The Story of Engineer Porn

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Some people hear “engineer porn,” and instantly think something XXX related.  The reason why I picked the name engineer porn for my blog/personal web site is basically from an inside joke between a friend of mine (Jordan) and I.  For a couple of months during my sophomore year of college, every time I ran into Jordan, I would ask, “What’s up?” and he would reply something to the effect of, “looking at engineer porn,” referring to the connector pinout (the PS/2 one stands out in my memory), or whatever engineering related thing he was looking at on his laptop.

I decided to register the domain name one night, not really knowing what I would do with it.  I originally wanted to convince one of the hot girls (she will remain unnamed) to don a skimpy outfit and a drop holster slide rule and otherwise get all sultry looking and take a totally sexy picture as the front picture for the site.  Then add some nerdy variation of a porn site “I agree/I’m over 18″ page, but with questions like “What is your name? What is your quest? What is the average…” you get the idea.  Behind that, get a project blog or something like that going.  So far I have the blog part going.

Baby steps…