I made a backup of the Idiotking database and upgraded the engine to WordPress 3.0 last night, which I’m hoping will speed things up around here. Simple HTTP requests to the website come up quickly but anything WordPress related (well, PHP related) is still slow as dirt, so I’m going to spend some time monkeying around with things here on the site to see what the culprit is. So if you see things missing for a while (the sideblog or Flickr feed at the top, for example) you’ll know I’m testing things out. So far, doing simple things like adding a post and editing on the backend seem to be much faster.

As always, if you see anything hinky, let me know in the comments.