I have just logged into my blog and been instructed that I need to upgrade my WordPress to version 2.7. I don’t know what anyone else thinks, but it feels to me that for the past few weeks, every time I’ve logged into WordPress to make a post, I’ve been asked to upgrade. I’ve literally only just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5, which as far as I could see had no discernible (or discernable??) advantages over WordPress 2.6. Sometimes I wonder whether I ought to go to the trouble of upgrading at all, but then Babel has installed a nifty little plugin which does most of the work for me, and people who know about computers have given me the impression that these upgrades are more important than I will ever understand. Having had all those issues with 3ix, I don’t want to slack off on upgrades and leave myself open to some other sort of security problems down the line. (more…)