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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.

I tried to access my website this morning but I got a “Bandwidth Exceeded” error.
My website is now up again thanks to James and I had a look at my site stats. My bandwidth usage for this month is 10GB. For March and April it was 9GB. It used to be 3 to 5GB before. I don’t understand what happened during the last three months. I’ll have to look into the matter and find ways to prevent the same thing from happening again.

I’ve decided to start using password protection for certain entries.

To my regular blog readers and commentators, I will be sending you the password soon. Before the last day of my exams (19th) anyway. If after that, you still haven’t received an email from me, you can try to contact me, especially if you think I forgot you. (Sorry…) I will be sending you the password on the email address you wrote when writing your comments. If you have a new email address, just leave a comment here with your new email address.
I also don’t know who exactly has been reading my blog (esp if they don’t comment) so it’s kinda difficult for me to decide to whom I should give the password.
To everyone else, if you receive no replies, it means NO. Sorry about this but unless I know you or you are a regular reader or commentator and I feel comfortable enough to let you read it, you won’t have access to my private posts. The private posts are likely to be extracts from my personal journal, my most personal thoughts…