OK, things are pretty much back to normal here.
Rather than overwrite the files when I updated, I deleted the whole thing (with the exception of the config file, of course) and uploaded the new Wordpress files. I also made sure to update ALL the plugins.
And since I was cleaning house, I took the opportunity to remove the dead wood from my blogrolls and update my Blog Aggregator. Here is the list of blogs on the Aggregator (in no particular order):
- The Peking Duck
- Simon World
- Ruminations in Korea
- ROK Drop
- Registan.net
- OneFreeKorea
- Occidentalism
- Mutantfrog Travelogue
- Lost Nomad
- Liminality… the space in between
- Life’s too short to brag about microcosm achievements
- Japundit
- Frog in a Well
- idiots’ collective
- Hunjangûi karûch’im
- Gusts Of Popular Feeling
- Foreign Dispatches
- Far Outliers
- The Western Confucian
- ComingAnarchy.com
- ‘Manoeuvre’ in Maritime Asia
- Kotaji
If you want to be added to my blogroll and/or my Blog Aggregator, shoot me an email or drop me a note in the comment section. I know some of you may have done so already—please do so again. Likewise, if you want OFF my aggregator, just let me know.
A couple of other notes:
- Gravatars have been disabled for now. They were really draining resources (my account was being suspended every other minute), and I have a feeling we may have to wait until a new WP 2.1-friendly plugin comes out;
- The cute little IP-to-Flag thing will be reimplemented soon. A couple of other minor things need to be reimplemented as well;
- The template has undergone a facelift, as you can see. It’s still the same Sandbox theme, just slightly altered with no small amount of, ahem, inspiration from Openswitch, who also built his theme from Scott’s Sandbox. Anyway, if something look funny or you have some ideas on how to improve the look of things here, my comment section awaits.
UPDATE: Added to Blog Aggregator:
UPDATE 2: Added to the Blog Aggregator:
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dear sir, If you would please add a link to my blog. I live in Korea and would love a link on your site.
http://www.mikemcstay.blogspot.com
thank you for your time.
i like this look, it’s cleaner and less encumbered.
as per improvements …
1) i’d shy away from blue for links and red for visited. the hover states could also use a little flushing out.
2) reduce the border width on the Flickr Photos to 1px and possibly in a different color from the regular links.
3) consider running the bottom of the design flush with the browser edge (margin-bottom: 0;)
mavsman15—done.
Angrycareb—Thanks for the tips.
I suppose we deal a lot more with Japan than Korea, though I’d be honored if you’d add us:
transpacificradio.com
Of course, http://www.law4u.net .
I hope I am not counted as Dead Wood.
I would like to be back in the Blogroll and Aggregator if possible.
Hi Robert
Thanks for the link on your blogroll. Another milestone on my 2007 wishlist accomplished!
Upgrading to 2.1… Yuk. I just did it in the hope that it might get rid of my problem with Iranian hackers. It didn’t. It just created more problems. “next_posts_link” and “previous_posts_link” have stopped working, and the image upload tool is completely screwed. Association between post id and post slug broken (pingbacks sent to wrong post). Blogroll and other links disrupted, but I think I’ve worked out how to fix that. The WordPress support forums seem to be full of upgrade problems, with not many answers!
What I now don’t know is: what damage was caused by the hackers and what was caused by the upgrade. Harrumphhh.
Great to meet you the other day & thanks for the directions to Kahoedong. Meeting w/ David Kilburn today in London, so a post should be coming soon.
Cheers
Philip
Could you add my blog (http://www.zzoozzoo.net) to your aggregator? My blog is about Korean politics and other junks, such as Korean entertainment, tech, etc.
Not always up to date, but here is my blog.
http://korearight.blogspot.com/
Mind adding it?
Ken, CyberBeggar, yeolchae, ZZOOzzoo, Juggertha—You’ve all been added to the sidebar blogroll.
londonkoreanlinks—This appears to be the ugliest upgrade in the history of Wordpress. Most of the other ones went real smooth. Now, that being said, it’s been a great opportunity to clean a little house, upgrade plugins and spiffy up the bloog. BTW, I read on your blog that you were getting hacked by the Iranians, but by the time I read, it looks like the problem was resolved. What the hell were they doing?
Hi M, I sent you an email a little while back when I first started…now I’m in full swing and would LOVE to be added to your list and aggregate…The title is “View from the Fence” here’s the address:
http://www.fenceriderkorea.blogspot.com
Thanks:)
sorry, aggregator…whatever
Hi Robert,
Could you please add my blog (http://hojupjimong.wordpress.com) to your sidebar blogroll? Thanks in advance.
Robert,
If you could blogroll The Florida Masochist(http://thefloridamasochist.blogspot.com/) I’d appreciate it. I’ve been visiting Marmot since discovering your site late last year. I’m not a Korea based blogger but frequently blog on Korean peninsula goings on.
GI in Korea has me blogrolled if that helps.
Bill
Robert, thanks so much. I agree with you 100% on that Word Press upgrade. I’ve had to do it a few times now and it isn’t pleasant, especially when there are custom things changed…I hope there isn’t some big security issue in the next 10 days.
Hi Robert; Technically I’m now just Korea-Expat alumni but if you had space in your “Other” list I’d sure appreciate a listing for my blog at “http://www.latenight.ca”. While it’s dormant now, my old Korea blog, the “Kyungnam to Kyunggi Journal” has been migrated, textually intact but with a new template, to the archives there as “http://korea.latenight.ca”. Might be of passing interest to a handful of folks.
… but to clarify, the main page is active and updated daily - just not from Korea. ^^
Dear Robert,
Thank you again for keeping me on your Aggregator. Keep up the good work on your blog.
Yours,
Joshua
dg611, fencerider, JiMong, flomas, Hyalucent—Added.
The Western Confucian—Thank you for all the quality blogging you’ve been doing over there.
Robert,
The blog looks good and from my end, loads right up without the delays I was seeing before, especially when clicking on the ‘comments’ link under a post.
Kindly add me to your Rogue’s Gallery as well:
http://throughwhiteyseyes.blogspot.com/
Thank you.
If possible, I would appreciate being added to the list.
You know me from Japundit.
http://ampontan.wordpress.com/
Yoroshiku!
I would be thankful to be added to the feed as well.
http://ampontan.wordpress.com/
At the top of the page is Shimane Prefecture’s account of its claim to Takeshima, which I translated.