Updating Drupal core always makes me a bit nervous, as it involves ripping out the old version and inserting a new. Not having access to Drush, I decided to make a shell script that would automate the steps, eliminating the usual risk of human error. The following is the script. It’s heavily commented, so I’ll keep extra remarks to a minimum.

Ola pessoal! I just got back from a two-day excursion to Chapada Diamantina (Diamond Plateau), a national park in the state of Bahia about a 7 hour drive away. I went with eight other people (7 girls and 1 other guy) and we took a bus from Salvador at 11:30 pm so that we could sleep on the bus and arrive in the morning.

In the winter, Armação dos Búzios is a quiet beach resort made famous by Brigitte Bardot (one of the pictures below is her statue). Apparently it is shoulder-to-shoulder packed in the summer. They call it the Saint-Tropez of South America. Heavily visited by South Americans (including plenty of Brazilians); very few from the USA. If you don't know some Portuguese, you’ll have to learn quickly—few people speak any English.