Have you been receiving this error message?

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/extend/some-plugin.zip
Download failed.: name lookup timed out
Installation Failed

Ever since I upgraded all my blogs to WordPress 2.7.1 .. I have been getting this error message. I was seeing it sometimes on a few 2.6+ upgrades except the error message said:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/extend/some-plugin.zip
Download failed.: Could not create Temporary file
Installation Failed

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Backgrounder – The Battling Series of Blogs

Back in January 2006 .. I first created a “Battling” series of blogs, each with unique names such as .. http://Battling-Cancer.com .. http://Battling-Obesity.com .. etc. In September 2007, sparked by the enormous recurring domain registration renewals, I created a brand new umbrella domain, and transfered these unique domain blogs to newly created subdomain blogs. I did document my experience into two semi-related posts that may interest you … here and there.

So, after my “reorganization #1″ the blogs, the new “Battling Series” of blogs looked like this .. http://cancer.BattlingForHealth.com .. and http://obesity.BattlingForHealth.com. Today, March 1, 2009, is my “reorganization #2″ where I combined those 14 subdomain blogs back into the root domain – Battling For Health.

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Well .. I really liked the old template, because it had sentimental value for me. It was the first template that I replicated on multiple blogs of mine, since October 2005. I first installed it on this blog when wordpress was at version 1.5+ and haven’t done much with it since.

But, today I noticed for the first time that the front page seemed to only display up to July 2008! Accessing a permalink and blog post was not an issue – as it showed up no problem – but, I often come to this blog and never noticed this template flow.

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