GreySquare Blog

No old Blog. No New Blog. There’s only one blog.

// October 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // General, Tech

The journey has been quite exciting. I started blogging at the now
defunct Yahoo!360. Then did some post on blogger and racked my brains
and imported all these posts into a WordPress installation on a free
hosting server. Now that I own a few domains I’ve decided to move all
the content here. I’ve found a wonderful resource for me to import all my previous blogs to one place. A plugin exists to export all the posts and comments of WordPress 2.1+ blogs to wxr format. Wxr stands for WordPress eXtended Rss.

http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/

I dared and used the plugin for my old WordPress 2.0.5 blog. It installed and exported all the content in an instant. I was a little apprehensive about importing this file into my current blog setup fearing it would ruin everything if there is a format mismatch. But it integrated wonderfully into my new setup.

Now I have all my blog posts, since June 2005 in one place. I never thought it would be possible in such an easy manner.

WordPress rocks!

WordPress Upgrade

// October 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

The blog was down for about 30 minutes during 12:10PM GMT and 12:40PM GMT due to scheduled maintenance for WordPress upgrade released 15 hours earlier. WordPress has been upgraded from 2.3 to 2.3.1, which is a bug-fix and security release. The upgrade went smooth except for one thing. After I finished uploading all the new files, I accessed the link http://greysquare.org/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php for the process to begin. But a page opened telling me “No Upgrade Required. Your WordPress database is already up-to-date!”. For a second there I was worried that the upgrade process did not recognize my upgrade. But all was well after I check the dashboard. This was my first successful WordPress upgrade.

Some of the notable Bug fixes can be found here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/10/wordpress-231/
More than 20 bugs were fixed in this release.

Special Note: to users on netfirms hosting who have previously used the Pretty URL’s in WordPress for Netfirms post to correct their permalink problem should again access their wp-includes/canonical.php and comment out the last line which should look like this after the edit,

//add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja for Xbox360

// October 27th, 2007 // 6 Comments » // Gaming, Tech

Yep! Thats right. Naruto, the recent anime sensation, is coming to Xbox360 as an action packed adventure game with the title “Naruto: Rise of a Ninja“. Note that a Naruto game already exists for wii. The preliminary reviews of the game have been very good. The Xbox magazine gave an average rating of 7.5/10 for this game. With support for both single and dual player mode this game is already high on expectations from Naruto fans world over.

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: Action
Release Date: Oct 30, 2007 (North America Region)
ESRB: TEEN