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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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 Most of my old hacks are no longer valid: either they’ve been superceded by new WordPress functionality, or … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »

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 … Continue reading »