I got a note from my web host this morning about how all the comment spam from all the spambots are straining the database server, along with a friendly suggestion that I upgrade my content management system to help stop the spam.

Sure, make more work for me. What a waste of a beautiful morning.

So I upgraded WordPress to help stave off all the comment spam, and it went pretty flawlessly until I noticed that all my categories were blank, uneditable, and unlinkable. Swear words were muttered, and a lower lip puffed up and out in a pissy pout. But I persevered and did a search on the support site, didn’t find much of anything, and stumbled onto the solution myself anyway. It took a bit of manual work and re-entering all the category names and slugs into the SQL database myself because somehow the upgrade installation had wiped them all out.

And at the end of the ordeal, I nodded in satisfaction and noticed that I hadn’t gotten anything real done, and by real, I mean something that makes me money. Blog maintenance is all well and good, but unlike Dooce’s blog, it does not earn me over $42K a month. A nice pat on the back every once in a while, maybe, but that’s pretty much it. At the end of the day, it’s a pesky bit of coding trouble just to share a piece of my mind with the world.

I am geek woman. Hear me … cough.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

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