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When upgrading Drupal core, we need to do the following standard steps:

1. Back-up your database, or better, back-up everything, including your files and directory structure.
2. Set your site to offline mode
3. Switch your theme to Garland
4. Disable all contributed modules (not the optional core modules)
5. Delete the previous Drupal files but do not remove the sites folder, .htaccess file and robot.txt file.
6. Upload the new Drupal version but be careful not to overwrite sites folder, .htaccess file and robot.txt file.
7. Re-enable again all contributed modules that you use.
8. Run update: http://yoursite.com/update.php
9. Switch back to your theme
10. Set your site to online mode

I found the steps above less risky in doing the upgrade. I never encounter any upgrade error with those steps. Note however that I am talking an upgrade of the same Drupal release, ie, from Drupal 6.17 to 6.19 not from 5.21 to 6.19.

What is avatar? Avatar is your personality in the internet. Today, avatar refers to your profile picture (icon) that appears beside your name when you participate a discussion in an avatar enabled website. I am not sure who started the concept of avatar but big names in computing like Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft are using it across their network. As far as I can recall, it was and is being used in games. Social networks like FaceBook and Twitter use it as profile picture.

Just recently, Western Digital (WD) come up a brilliant idea of putting some personality to their hard disk products, particularly the WD Caviar Series in blue, green, and black. Making a rare introduction to the already established brand name is fun, and it becomes more and real fun because they turned their ideas into cartoon movies. As of the writing of this post, WD uploaded 4 episodes to introduce their hard drives. I embed the four episodes to the video section of this site, you can watch it in the following links: