I’ve started using the Bad Behavior/Bad Behaviour plugin for WordPress, which is meant to cut down on the number of spambots that attempt to access my site. In theory it shouldn’t block any real visitors, although this has been known to happen, so if you notice any problems (e.g., can’t get to my blog from [...]
On top of being framed (and yes, they’re still there), my site was recently hacked. Somehow someone managed to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And managed thereby to elevate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the [...]
The moving went relatively painlessly, although I should really have waited until the DNS move had taken effect before killing my DYNDNS account, since that meant the site was out of commission for a little longer than absolutely necessary. Mind you, that was probably all of two hours, so not a big deal. Everything should [...]
Our PC in the basement is getting overloaded with my site (spam attacks are on the increase), so I’m moving Anyway to a hosting service. It will probably take a day or two to get the wrinkles ironed out and the DNS routing hooked up properly; I’ll post again when it’s all set.
I’ve been promising to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.2 for some time, and being on pregnancy leave seemed to be the right time to do it (up early in the mornings, no pressing work-related projects). As usual, the actual process of upgrading was simple and mostly just worked; I use WS-FTP Pro to transfer files and [...]
Ive been intending on upgrading my Debian firewall/blog box to the latest version, called ’sarge’ (a.k.a 3.1) for some months now. Today was the day I decided to finally bite the bullet. Since I’ve been using backports of unstable versions of software, such as MySQL (see Upgrading MySQL on Debian for that process, and [...]
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