Recently I upgraded our blogging software to the latest release. The upgrade went without a hitch and all looked ok. I even did a quick check. It really was a quick check however, as it was getting late and I wanted to go home.

Never do an upgrade either last thing in the day and never, never do an upgrade or release on a Friday afternoon! Why you say? because it will invariably go wrong and you wont check things properly if you’re in a hurry. The observant of you will notice the blog looks nothing like the rest of our site.

That’s because I’ve overwritten the template that we use with the default. What makes it worse is that I’ve overwritten the backup! Foolish boy…. granted, I never normally overwrite the templates and in fact, we normally change the template name when we build new blogs with custom templates for other people. Still, we aren’t doing for ourselves what we do for others are we?

The blog will be fixed later today when I get to my laptop (which has a backup of the template on it). By which time everyone reading the blog who subscribes to the how-do weekly wrap (which Pyxisoft currently sponsor) will have seen my mistake.

No Friday afternoon beers for Steve as punishment.

Last night’s Manchester Digital AGM went well and the 12 members of this year’s council were chosen. you can read more about each coucil member in the article on the Manchester Digital site.

Congratulations go to our friends Simon Wharton from PushOn and Raj Mahapatra of Legal 2.0 who were both re-elected. Also, Nina Mack from Mitooshi and MadeWith who was newly elected.

I’ll be at the Manchester Digital AGM tonight to vote at the elections. It’s at MDDA’s offices on Portland St.

Good luck to everyone who’s nominated.