While I’m officially still employed as just a web developer, my job has become an interesting mix of things among which ‘computer security journalist’. In that role, I occasionally warn people to keep their web software up-to-date, because tools like WordPress are known to have bugs discovered in them occasionally; not updating them would make it fairly easy for anyone with evil intentions to turn your blog into one that serves malware to anyone visiting your site. Which is probably the internet-equivalent to carrying a very contagious virus while welcoming people in your shop.

When I’m just another WordPress-blogger though, like most people I tend to be lazy; hence I too had not upgraded WordPress in donkeys’ years. I have now. Luckily, upgrading WordPress has become a piece of cake, not in the least because of the automatic upgrade plugin. I even like the new dashboard layout. And I excitedly discovered it tells you which of your plugins have a newer version and lets you upgrade them with one click as well.

Unfortunately, I was a bit too excited about that. Not until I had upgraded all my plugins, did I remember that I had tweaked the last.fm plugin a fair bit. Of course, all my changes were made undone by upgrading and I had forgotten to make a backup-copy of the plugin. So it suddenly shows me a few dozen songs I have listened to today, rather than just the five most recent. I can live with that, I suppose.