My hosting administrator sent me an e-mail a month ago threatening to shut down my blog until I upgraded to version 2.7 of Word Press. I’ve apparently had this blog for so long and have been so poor at upgrading the database that my blog alone had become a serious security threat the billions of other websites on the world wide web. But rather than be the diligent, responsible webmaster I should have been, I chose to ignore the request and simply avoid updating my blog. For some reason I figured if I just didn’t update my blog, maybe he’d forget that I needed to upgrade at all.

Well, he didn’t forget and my blog was removed. Arg. A little in shock and a little ticked off (I never make any backups) I begged for an extension and my account was temporarily restored. Saved, I thought. But not quite. I once again avoided upgrading the WP database, hoping that he’d soon forget. Nope. This time he didn’t take it down. He just made it ugly and erased all my hard-earned themes, leaving me with a that sick Classic blue and white theme.

Okay Hosting Administrator, I got it. I upgraded the damn thing.

You win.

P.S. – Did I mention I lost eeeeveerything during my ugprade?

-Lex