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Upgrading my blog today

I knew the time would come. I needed to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress for security reasons. I think someone’s been messing with my blog. Somehow all my plugins got deactivated, my pages won’t display, I couldn’t create new pages or posts, and who knows what else. I’ve held off upgrading because my current theme doesn’t work with the latest versions.

So, pardon the dust…


8 Comments
  1. Wade Fransson April 17, 2008,

    Lana,

    I’m commenting on your previous theme - the objective search for truth. This is a fascinating theme, one which I would love to discuss at great length. Just taking your one comment, and without knowing the bulk of your thinking, I would like to add the thought that our ego is the main deterrent to comprehending truth - not whether or not we take an “objective” or a “subjective” path.

    It is my belief that there is a “pull” internal to all matter and all life that leads it back to the source. The desire to be separate provides a resistance, an independence, which is modeled in the orbits of celestial bodies, the tug of gravity and the tug away of motion (centrifugal force).

    This plays out at the human level with the desire to be one and the desire to be separate. Embracing oneness, whether from a platform of objectivity or subjectivity, coupled with the discipline of independent investigation, is the path to truth. Ego and adherence to its biases is the resistance on the path to truth.

    Just my 2 cents.

  2. Citizen Deux April 17, 2008,

    Nice new format…although I miss your banner garden

  3. Lana Walker-Helmuth April 17, 2008,

    Hi CD, I’ll be putting the flower banner up later today. I like it too!

  4. Lana Walker-Helmuth April 17, 2008,

    (Note to my regulars - Wade is an old friend)

    Hi Wade! Thanks for popping in and seeing what I’ve been up to! I understand what you’re saying about ego, etc., but probably from a different perspective.

    For example, I tend to go with the idea that the “ego” is just one part of our brain processes, and it only has access to part of the story. As Jill Bolte Taylor’s experience shows, we’re not always consciously aware of the rest of the story, but it’s there!

    As I always say here, what I don’t know is who or what wrote the story and why. It’s all a mystery.

  5. gregory June 3, 2008,

    if you read this.. consider getting disqus or intensedebate for a comment plug in .. they allow threaded conversations, so that the commenters can talk to each other too.. really increases the appeal

  6. Lana Walker-Helmuth June 3, 2008,

    Okay, I’ll look for one.

  7. Lana Walker-Helmuth July 11, 2008,

    This is a test using nested comments.

  8. Lana Walker-Helmuth July 11, 2008,

    Doesn’t seem to be working.

    gregory, I looked at disqus. I can see how it could facilitate conversations. But I don’t want my blog’s comments to be housed off-site. I want to keep comments in my own database.

    I’ll keep looking for a WordPress plugin that works.