Journey Notes

After I tried for a while to embed a movie on the German blog, and in the process came across the new user interface for WordPress, which includes buttons to insert movies without much HTML coding, I decided to update the WordPress installation for this blog. It was running on 2.2 and it is now 2.6.5. Now I have my movie and music insert buttons , and a number of short codes, but unfortunately right now I can’t think of a movie, or image, or audio, to insert. Anyway, the upgrade went well, and I am also dictating again.

The following paragraph showed up after the database upgrade as an old draft, and was from the original date of setting up this blog in 2007. For what it’s worth, here it is again; it doesn’t look like I can upgrade the German blog to insert movies more easily, because that one is controlled by the provider, and I don’t think I have any influence on what version of WordPress is running there.

Just FYI, the other blog is reisenotizen.janburke.de, which I have set up from the 1&1 (large German ISP; used to be an inside tip, now quite mainstream I think) webspace administration menu. That is all automatic but you have a lot less control over the look and function of your blog page. Still, this is what got me started. I have now installed an SQL data base on journey-notes.janburke.de; I don’t even know what that is, but WordPress needs that to run. Apparently there are quite a few scripts in the installation that help file and organise the blog entries.
I am also curious to see whether the subjects will be different in the German and the English blog; I would expect that the German stuff is more of a “my friends and me” nature, whereas I might post some stuff of more general interest here.