Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1

Upgraded my blog’s wordpress to v3.0.1

Migrated the wordpress mysql database to a 6 core PE Server. It seems that my blog is a bit more responsive now. Don’t have any concrete measurement. One major problem was I got garbage characters when I exported and imported the wordpress database from mysql 5.1.x on Solaris platform to  MySQL 5.0.x on Linux platform. After I have explicitly specified the default character set to utf-8 during export and import, the problem solved.

Also upgraded the NextGen gallery. It has an integrated flash slideshow now.