Given the problems I was having this weekend after I upgraded to WordPress 2.2 (the blogging software I use for Rose Cantine and Pajama Entrepreneur) I realized that what I needed was a patron saint. There’s a patron saint for travelers (Saint Christoper), cars (Saint Frances), and music (Saint Cecilia). So why not for those struggling with computers?

I found out that there is a patron saint for geeks and the Internet: Saint Isidore (San Isidro) who lived in Sevilla in the 7th century. It is said that he compiled the world’s first database (the 20-volume Etymologies), which would also qualify him to be the patron saint of search engines.

But for the truly desperate, i.e. when your WordPress blog breaks down completely or your PC is attacked by viruses and hijacked by malware (because you have not joined the ranks of Those Who Switched to the Mac), there’s Saint Jude, patron saint of Hopeless and Desperate Cases.

You could hang a virtual medallion of Saint Isidore (and when truly in need, Saint Jude) on your blog (a little icon on the right hand side) the way Filipino jeepney drivers hang medallions of the Virgin Mary and Saint Christopher from their rear view mirrors. I am waiting for someone to write a plugin for this feature.

I just upgraded two of my blogs, this one and Pajama Entrepreneur, to WordPress 2.2 which was released last week. The new version is buggy and I regret having upgraded so soon. For whatever reason, maybe I have lots of widgets on the other blog, several things are broken: the quicktags don’t work, I get errors using Marsedit, the sidebar widgets which are integrated in WordPress 2.2 can’t be changed, etc. From now on I’m waiting at least a month before upgrading unless the upgrade is necessary for security reasons.

UPDATE: I solved the visual editor problems and Marsedit XML parsing failure by deactivating one of the older plugins called Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form (v.2.0WP B20070414).