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I finally got around to upgrading. Much less painful than I thought it would be.

The world moves on: I’ve updated the blog software from version 1.2 to 1.5.1.3 in response to this security notice. PEAR’s XML module has also been updated to address the general issue.
In the meantime, various things will be broken/odd until I get the various pieces updated or rewritten, but the site’s overall functionality should [...]

Well, I got bombed last night with some 300 trackbacks advertising an online poker site. WordPress handles trackbacks processing differently from comments processing (even though they all wind up in the same database table), so this spam robot escaped the captcha. As I get notification of each comment/trackback posting, I basically woke up [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of comments spam in the past few days trying to improve the pagerank of some online pharmacy. Firewall rules haven’t been that effective, since these appear to be sent by robots running on zombied machines across a number of IP nets. Turning on moderation was also not particularly [...]

I’m mucking around WP1.2 now. The old image hack (iv.php) has been modified to conform with the way WP does things, so I can still reasonably display all the pictures that had been posted here. The old b2print.php and b2mailpost.php need to be rewritten (so does iv.php for that matter, mainly because of [...]

I’ve relaunched this site after upgrading the old, hacked b2 to WordPress 1.2.
Most of my old hacks are no longer valid: either they’ve been superceded by new WordPress functionality, or I have to go about writing new versions if no one else has written the proper plug-ins. I’ll have to investigate whether the “printable” [...]

I just put together an easy RSS portal package. Here’s the overview section of the README:

This package provides a personal protal for RSS syndicated newsfeeds. The goal of this project was to provide myself with a personal portal off of my website that I can go to when I want to catch up [...]

In a bid to be more organized, I’m installing Alex King’s Tasks. The demo looks nifty, though there’s no method of authentication. Given that, the tasks directory will be restricted using .htaccess methods on, say, IP addresses. Perhaps I may also put in a b2 authentication thing for my own use.
One nice [...]

Trivially annoyed with the 404 “/favicon.ico not found” errors I get in http logs, I went and created a trivial favicon.ico file. This was about two minutes with MS Paint and cropping/saving with IrfanView. Now, on a par with Yahoo!, my website has a logo, all without the committee meetings Yahoo! must have [...]

b2search has been revised, with some minor changes: no alterations of the database or the any existing concordance data is required. The changes only affect the processing of search requests.
This version addresses the following:
Added hyperlink to posts that have no title

Fixed problem where the search string consists entirely of common words

Fixed some HTML generation [...]