Ah…the immortal words of Chris Farley.

If you’re looking at my blog and wondering what the heck is going on, allow me to shed some light on the situation. First, some background. I’ve been designing sites for over 6 years now and while I have a solid grip on the aesthetics, I’m pretty clueless when it comes to the development/coding side of things. Recently I decided that I should try to better understand the back-end side of site development and so I started to learn CSS mainly with a little PHP thrown here and there. I was feeling confident, I was installing plug-ins and customizing my blog. I was puffed up. Then came my insatiable desire to hit buttons and when I saw the “upgrade to Wordpress 2.6″ message appear in my admin area, I was smitten. After a few failed attempts at the “automatic wordpress upgrade” plug-in I had successfully used with the previous WP release, I decided to go the distance and try to manually upgrade my blog all by myself.

Usually I contact my good friend Ryan to help me through stuff like this because the dude’s a wizard with code, but again I was feeling confident and slightly arrogant. So I downloaded the latest WP release, opened Transmit, and “followed” the WP upgrade steps. Everything worked like a champ, until I realized the very important step of backing up my custom theme and plug-ins. Yes, a very important step.

Hopefully not all is lost as I should have all of my files stored locally on my work computer and after a simple upload things should be back to normal. I’ll just have to wait until Monday. That gives me plenty of time to swallow some humility.