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I broke it.

And never have I felt more like I owned my blog than after having put the damn thing back together piece by piece.

The whole mess started when I tried to upgrade last week. Since I switched from Blogger to Wordpress in March 2007, I’d been using a version somewhere in the 2.1.x range. It’s been outdated for, oh, a year or so. Upgrading was never much of a priority because everything mostly worked, and my minor theme tweaking was enough.

I did use a separate WP2.3.x install for my portfolio site. It turns out native tagging is sweet, and those tags might not disappear when someone comments (ahem, ultimate tag warrior, not so ultimate, ahem). And when I saw screen shots of the latest version, 2.5.1, I decided it was time.

So, I proceeded to tear down what I had. And then I couldn’t get it back up.

The problem, as far as I can tell, stemmed from my old Techmania theme, which as you can see (feed readers, this would be a good time to click through) is gone for good. I was tired of it anyway.

So I’m back up and running. Expect more posts in the near future. And expect me to continue bouncing (virtually) between China and new media.

Stay tuned.

(Last note: I’m still not set on a new theme, so the look and feel around here might change. Feel free to suggest something new. I like green, and cleaner is better, but beyond that I’m open.)