As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the reasons we moved to DreamHost was their “One Click Installation” system that makes installing packages (Word Press, Media Wiki, etc) so much easier. Tonight I noticed that our blog was running on an older version and it needed updating. So, from the DreamHost control panel, I went to the blog setup and sure enough, there was an “Upgrade” button that I clicked and voila, it did all the work.

How cool is that?

Yes, I’m a geek and yes, I enjoy mucking around with systems, packages and so on, but only when I’m ready for it. I don’t like having to stop, spend some time figuring it out, then doing it, then testing it and (finally) getting back on with what I wanted to be doing. Usually by the time I’ve finished “geeking” I’ve got no time left to do the important thing I originally wanted to be doing.

Now back to the interesting entries that Andrew’s posting from Africa…