It seems that something broke with cron jobs in WordPress 2.9, which meant that, among other things, posts scheduled for a future publish date would not publish and trackbacks and pingbacks would not happen. The WordPress team put together what they tested to be a fix, and scheduled it for WP 2.9.1, but since Shoebox uses post-dating, and we both use trackbacks/pingbacks, I couldn’t wait to implement it.
That means, if you see this, it works.
It’s a good thing we’ve got the brainy end of the blogosphere at this site! The diaretic, diatribing, blathering side of the blogosphere has nothing to say but “it’s broke,” when these things happen! Thanks for keeping us “on the air!”
Oh, BTW, you’re giving away my secret. Our readers used to think I actually got up at 4 AM to write my posts!
So you get up at 4:30 to do so :-)
And that’s why I don’t auto-upgrade. Let things break, first.