Apologizes for the broken links around the blog currently but I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.9 and everything but the individual posts have transferred over. Trying to figure out what went wrong and have it fixed as soon as possible.

Hopefully, it doesn’t take too long.

[EDIT] Well that didn’t take very long and a lot of thanks to Brian Feraudo, Evan Raffel and Don Campbell.

Anyone else seeming to have trouble upgrading from WordPress 2.8.6 to 2.9 should certainly follow this link. It is quite useful: What I Learned Upgrading to WordPress 2.9.

My blog for the longest time had a very simplistic mobile format which at times became quite buggy and would load the regular theme onto many mobile browsers without much reason. I think those problems are behind me starting today with the addition of plugin called WPtouch. I had to make a couple of minor tweaks but I think it was well worth it as more and more features of ABG are now accessible through mobile means.

I have attached screenshots in the gallery below and I’ll describe each one after the break. Let me know what you think of the new look – you like it? hate it? want to recommend some other change? Feel free to let me know.

Home Page: The home page definitely looks a whole lot better now as it is more space efficient. First the small menu bar that runs across the top allows me to place many links into the sub sections without it cluttering up a small screen. Also, the way the posts are displayed is very nice because not only does it show the usual stuff like post title and date but it also displays the categories, tags and even has an option to add the author name. I think I’ll add that once I start getting a couple of guest bloggers.

I know a couple of people asked about supporting the blog by purchasing something to offset the costs. Well I think the answer to that is through the ways of CafePress. I have set up an AngryBrownGuy Shop over there  to view items varying from t-shirts to sweatshirts, bags to bears, stickers to calendars.

Personally the two items that I think came out superbly were the t-shirt and even the teddy bear both of which are priced at only $20.

Other items that stand out would be the hooded sweatshirt at $30 or simple wall calendar for 2009 at only $10.

Click the image below to visit the store homepage.