Could’nt find any plugins option on my WordPress dashboard in order to create a back-up of my WordPress database: step 1 in Maria Langer’s guide to transferring my WordPress hosted blog to Godaddy:   Was able to create an XML file through the export option, but that was about it.

Resigned to the fact that there’s generally no easy way into a good thing, I returned to my PHP and MySQL book: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane.  After reading through the first three chapters of useful, but not at all interest provoking  chapters on variables, string literals, expressions, operators, functions, and regular expressions, I made it to the chapter, “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5.  I must say, constructors and destructors are much more fun.

My workspace is a bit warm, and, despite the new level of interest I have for my reading material, I’m still fighting my tendency to fall asleep.   In order to break my nodding pattern, I’m stopping to record my meager progress.

Next chapter: SQL and MySQL!