Recently upgraded along with the rest of the world to Word­Press 2.8.1 and hit a whole bunch of crazi­ness that essen­tially encour­aged me to move even this site across to Web­Fac­tion (eat­ing your own dog food and all that) because of no longer being able to post from the Word­Press admin panel.

I hadn’t changed any plu­g­ins, and the rest of the net was con­spic­u­ously quiet, so I fig­ured that either my cur­rent host had near-simultaneously upgraded the data­base & cor­rupted some­thing along the way (with MySQL this can result in read-only tables in cer­tain cases, I’m told), or else there was some­thing more sin­is­ter at work. No plu­g­ins had changed, and because noth­ing else func­tioned dif­fer­ently for even a moment I pre­sumed inno­cence on their behalf. I tried with and with­out Google Gears enabled, with and with­out tags, in dif­fer­ent saved sta­tuses, and still noth­ing worked!

Any­way. Turns out it was my use of the term “wget”. (Even now I need to be care­ful as I write that!)

mod_security on Apache basi­cally threw up its lunch every time I threat­ened to post about it. Accord­ingly, I can’t share with you some things that I’ve learnt in migra­tion just yet, and haven’t been post­ing about any­thing else as I’ve been try­ing to resolve this prob­lem, think­ing it was pre­vent­ing me from post­ing. Per­haps mod_security is try­ing to get me to write about more mean­ing­ful things than file trans­fer trick­ery! *yawn*

At any rate, it’s all over now and we’ll be back to reg­u­larly sched­uled pro­gram­ming shortly.