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Meta: WordPress Upgrade and Theme Change

I updated to the newly released WordPress 2.8 yesterday, which subsequently broke the theme I was using (iNove). I updated to the latest version of the theme, but wasn’t very happy with the search box in the header area, so today I switched to Pyrmont V2 and I must say that I’m really happy with it!

In other news, I’ll be swapping the hinges and LCD back cover on my wife’s Acer Aspire 9300, with before/during/after photos. The hinges on this model are very stiff and eventually break the plastic case, and then warp themselves rending the laptop a desktop. They’ve already been replaced under warranty, so now it’s my turn to take a crack at it. Also, her hard drive is starting to show signs of immediate-total-failure in the form of disk read errors on boot, so that’ll be swapped along the way.