UPDATE: After much frustration, waiting, tinkering, and prayer, the upgrade is done. So far the only casualty is our Facebook statuses. I MIGHT be able to bring them back, but Facebook has recently made some changes that make it much more difficult to feed statuses to other sites.

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I have a confession to make that won’t be a surprise to many of you: I don’t actually write the code for this website. With help from Jenny, I write the stuff you read and also do some of the formatting, but everything else is produced by the software that runs the site, WordPress. After putting it off for a year, I plan to finally upgrade this software on Monday or Tuesday during my break. The upgrade is a bit complicated and risky, so I’m a little nervous.

If all goes well, you shouldn’t see any significant changes at first. I’ll just have some handy new features for producing the site. If something goes wrong, the site might be unavailable for a little while or possibly a long while. At least you’ll know what happened. =)