Goddess, I Am.

And so dewy Iris flew down from the sky on saffron-colored wings, trailing a thousand different colors across the sun… - From Virgil’s Aeneid

For the past day or so, that salmon-colored, rectangular-ish thing somewhere near the top of my dashboard that’s telling me to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 has been bugging me incessantly. I visited my control panel at my host’s to see if there’s a way for them to upgrade the damned thing themselves, but the latest version they had available was still Wordpress 2.5.1. I figured I’d wait a few days because I didn’t really know how to go about it myself.

Then I remembered I had an automatic Wordpress upgrade plugin installed after having read somewhere that it’s a must-have. So rather gleefully, I activated it, thinking that it was going to go through the entire exercise without me having to do anything. Well, it did, in essence - but not before it made me do scary stuff like backing up my database and agreeing to deactivate my plugins; which, I might add, only made me quite panicky. I kept thinking that I didn’t know what to do if it all went awry. Yes, I had a backup of my database, but much good that’s going to do me if I didn’t know what to do with it.

Eventually, the upgrade finished. How long I’ve been holding my breath, I’m not really sure, but it felt good to exhale. So now my blog is running on the all-new Wordpress 2.6, thanks to ‘em geniuses who created such a marvelous plugin. Why (or how) that matters, I have no idea. But at least, I don’t see that salmon-colored, rectangular-ish thing at the top of my dashboard anymore.