I’m beginning the process of upgrading to the latest version of WordPress and should be finished by 8PM CDT [0100 UTC].
There may be a short period when the blog is unavailable, but this normally doesn’t cause a major meltdown [famous last words in technology circles].
Update: Things seem to be working with minutes to spare.
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Even with your site whitelisted in AdBlock+, pages seem to take approximately forever to load. Status line reads “Waiting for …”, which makes me think it might be on your end, though of course I can’t be sure. You might want to test away from home just in case.
Apparently it’s AdBlock+, which is new to me. Disabling it entirely allows your pages to load. (Kryten, you’re an AB+ enthusiast as I recall; any ideas?)
… but only if I disable it in the Firefox Add-Ons window. A simple Disable click in the AB+ dropdown didn’t do it. Let’s see if this comment posts…
… well, eventually, after I closed and reopened FF. Everything still really slow. I’m going to try uninstalling AB+ altogether…
… no AB+ this time at all. Feel free to delete all the trash comments above.
Steve, AB+ would see the ADClick link that Sitemeter and possibly Feedjit use, as that occasionally slows loading even when the Sitemeter / Feedjit main sites load and would definitely be ID’ed as ads.
It could also be unhappy with the virtual IP of the site because of the way NSF works.
It loaded without problems just a couple of weeks ago on a relative’s iPhone … if you don’t consider too fragmented to easily read a problem. Fortunately we were just looking for a link.
AB+ is now explicitly allowing sitemeter and feedjit without complaint, and your site loads quite quickly. I made no changes here, so I don’t know what made it add those lines. Maybe AB+ tracks new users and noted the problem. I’m glad I don’t have to abandon it; it really does speed up some sites like TPM, Firedoglake, etc., not to mention NYT.
(OT: There’s no prohibition, but I spent the day running Wine. Nothing wrong with the idea, but they freely admit it’s a fairly aggressive hack. Some things work; some don’t; some I’m convinced never will.)
I would assume that it checks a “whitelist” for sites, and both Feedjit and Sitemeter would be common enough on blogs that they would be “whitelisted”. I’m sure that there is a “learning” process in AB+, as in most filtering software.
I try to keep down the “noise” here, as I am one storm away from dial-up, and several of the things I have considered adding simply eat too much bandwidth. That’s also the reason I don’t embed when I link to video. Even with DSL there are several sites that take entirely too long to come up.
OT: Hacking buggy OS’s isn’t the easiest task in the world. It’s difficult to emulate bugs.