An overview of what came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently.

• Original plans for the Eiffel Tower
  from: kottke.org on 23 Dec 2009
• YEAH, TAPES ARE INFALLIBLE, RIGHT…
  from: Little Frog in High Def on 23 Dec 2009
• SIGNAL VS. NOISE: Combining a camera review with a travelogue
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 23 Dec 2009
• My Favorite Song This Week
  from: Late Greats (The Blog) on 23 Dec 2009
• Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid [Health]
  from: Lifehacker on 23 Dec 2009
• Information Is Beautiful: Climate Change Skeptics vs. The Scientific Consensus
  from: Daring Fireball on 23 Dec 2009
• Stereotyping people by their favorite author
  from: kottke.org on 22 Dec 2009
• 14-year old Dutch sailor goes missing, turns up in St. Maartin
  from: Gadling on 22 Dec 2009
• How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: explaining quantum physics through discussions with a German shepherd
  from: Boing Boing on 22 Dec 2009
• Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed ‘Duke Nukem’
  from: Wired Top Stories on 22 Dec 2009
• America can't make things because managers all learn finance instead of production
  from: Boing Boing on 21 Dec 2009
• Researcher Translation
  from: xkcd.com on 21 Dec 2009
• Video: Man Attaches GPS to Cat
  from: A Welsh View on 20 Dec 2009
• Norwegian public broadcaster torrents 7-hour, hi-def trainride
  from: Boing Boing on 19 Dec 2009
• Brief: Google Book Search violates French copyright law
  from: Ars Technica on 18 Dec 2009
• Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes
  from: Boing Boing on 18 Dec 2009
• Eric Lafforgue’s Eritrea Shots
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 17 Dec 2009
• The world’s best sommelier vs. the world’s worst customer
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 17 Dec 2009
• What's the deal with fish oil?
  from: kottke.org on 16 Dec 2009
• Bill Bryson: Everything that happens is amazing
  from: New Scientist – Online News on 16 Dec 2009

An overview of what came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently.

• How the BBC made one of those amazing plant growing shots
  from: PVC | The Entire Site on 20 Dec 2009
• "Enhance!" A funny montage of fake image processing
  from: John Nack on Adobe on 19 Dec 2009
• Font Geek? There’s an app for that
  from: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report on 19 Dec 2009
• Nachtwey Intern Ad Kerfuffle Follow-Up
  from: The Online Photographer on 19 Dec 2009
• DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron’s Avatar 3D Preview (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)
  from: Techmeme on 18 Dec 2009
• Lessons Learned from a Hacked Google Account [Security]
  from: Lifehacker on 18 Dec 2009
• Graphic Design Favors!
  from: Design Observer: Observed on 18 Dec 2009
• PanAm
  from: Ace Jet 170 on 18 Dec 2009
• Kopenhagen in hiše
  from: oslikarstvuinšečem on 18 Dec 2009
• More Signs of the Apocalypse – Paris is the new Dubai
  from: Veritas et Venustas on 17 Dec 2009
• Please Scroll
  from: JeffCroft.com: Latest bookmarks on 17 Dec 2009
• Idoli 2010/Idols 2010
  from: …and Dax said… on 17 Dec 2009
• Popular Science -: Insurgents Hack Predator Video Feed With $26 Software
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 17 Dec 2009
• Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? (Facebook)
  from: Techmeme on 17 Dec 2009
• E-Books – The Bigger Problem, Part One of Three.
  from: Dangerous Precedent on 17 Dec 2009
• Why your boss is incompetent
  from: New Scientist – Online News on 17 Dec 2009
• New Google app shows how much of a website’s content is “above the fold”
  from: UX Magazine on 17 Dec 2009
• Periodic Table of Beer Styles
  from: A Welsh View on 16 Dec 2009
• Another Dreamy Design
  from: The F STOP » Photographers Blog on 16 Dec 2009
• Bill Bryson: Everything that happens is amazing
  from: New Scientist – Online News on 16 Dec 2009

Today I upgraded to the newest WP version 2.9 (auto upgrade) only to be greeted by a blank screen. I didn’t know what caused the error, presuming it had something to do with automatic upgrade process within WordPress, so I logged in via FTP and deleted all the files (other than wp-content folder) and uploaded them again manually. This didn’t produce any results so I went back to WordPress.org upgrade manual where it says plugins should be disabled prior to upgrading (I skipped that step at first). I then deleted my plugins folder and started uploading and activating them back one by one, quickly realizing in the process that the problem was with fGallery. I’ve been planning on moving on from this troublesome plugin for a while now but so far had no time to migrate completely.

I guess this last issue put another nail in the coffin and I’ll try to move on as soon as possible. What happened is that fGallery requires two files in the wp-includes folder that appear to be missing in WP2.9 and that triggered a fatal error while attempting to reactivate the plugin. Since my old galleries still require fGallery to display photos I needed a solution. And it was a simple one, I just copied gettext.php and streams.php from an older release of WordPress. It doesn’t seem to bother the new version and my galleries are working again so until I disable fGallery for good those two files are staying there.