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After my previous upgrade to wordpress 2.2.1, I didn’t upgrade my wordpress again.
This was what I saw each time I tried to access my blog or blog admin page during the past few days:

500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@a-l-i-n-e.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.5 Server at www.a-l-i-n-e.com Port 80

I didn’t do anything at first because I was quite busy with my thesis but when I saw James online a few days later, I told him about the error. He told me that he would look into the matter and when I got back home yesterday, I saw the message he left for me on MSN.

(Quoted from our MSN conversation)
James said:
Regarding your WordPress installation, please have it upgraded. It stopped working because we upgraded to PHP5.

Indeed, after upgrading to the latest wordpress (version 2.3.2), my blog is now working fine. There are a few changes which I want to make here but I’ll leave that for next week when I’m done with my exams.

What did I learn from this?
Always upgrade when there’s a new version out.

I haven’t logged in my website cpanel since quite a while now. Here’s what I saw in my ‘Disk Space Usage’ page,

I don’t use that email address at all and therefore I was quite surprised to see that the mail folder took up the most space. I went to have a look. All the mails were junk mails. Arghhhhhh
I deleted everything.

wow, it’s been so long already?
I’m beginning to hate the wordress maintenance mode plugin. It’s just too easy to activate it and then put off updating for months. I think I activated the plugin in order to update to the wordpress 2.2 but then because many people were having trouble with that upgrade, I decided to wait for version 2.2.1 to come out instead and now, it’s finally out. The current theme is only temporary. I’m quite busy with my exams right now.

So how I am doing… ? I was so happily typing the above words that I actually forgot about my food poisoning. I’ve been quite miserable for one and a half weeks. No more seafood for me for a long time! I have to be very careful about what I eat until I recover completely. I need to get better by Friday 29th because it’s a BIG day for me. More about that later.

Strangely, I can no longer update my About page. I haven’t tried to update it since months and I’ve upgraded my wordpress to the latest version one not long ago. It’s only now that I realise that I cannot edit my About page any more. After I press Save, the page is redirected to post.php instead.
My other pages can be edited successfully. That’s so strange. I had to edit my About page via the database instead but still, it’s really troublesome to have to do that each time I want to edit my About page.

-edited at 23:15-
I have edited my About page via the database and deleted all the text and saved the page. Then , I went in my wordpress ‘Manage pages’ page to edit the About page. I wrote the word ‘testing’ and pressed Save. The page could be edited successfully. It seems that it’s a word in my About page which was causing my page not to save properly.
I had kept a copy of my About page content so I pasted one paragraph of text and pressed the Save button. I did this for the rest of the paragraphs until the page doesn’t save and gets redirected to post.php instead. Then I pasted sentences by sentences until I managed to track down the word which was causing all this trouble.

It’s the word ’s e t’ . (sorry for the spaces in between, my post won’t save otherwise. )
I then edited my Links page (just to see if I get the same problem with other pages)and put the word ’s e t’ at the very beginning and the page can still be saved.
I put the word one paragraph below and it could still be saved. When I write that word further down or at the end of the page, the page cannot be saved. So weird.

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note: I’m very bored right now but I guess that it’s quite obvious.