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It’s funny because it’s true.

According to Dr Dave, the celebrated creator of Spam Karma, there is a serious vulnerability in current versions of Wordpress. He says that to be safe, you should make sure that Options -> General -> Anyone can register is unchecked. My feeling is that this has something to do with the upcoming Wordpress 2.0.4 release, […]

So today I was editing a page in wiki I like, and noticed the following in the code:
<div style=”display:none”>
[We are delicate. We do not delete your content.]
[l_sp25]
twenty links to Polish scammer websites
</div>
How amusing. Are you supposed to be grateful for the fact that this particular Polish spammer didn’t vandalize your wiki?
And on a less amuzing […]

I run Squid in accelerator mode — i.e. all http requests go through a Squid cache before being forwarded to Apache. This noticeably speeds up Wordpress on my puny virtual server. So today apt-get told me that a new version of Squid was out, and I blissfully upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. An hour later […]

There are a number of reasons for my eschewal of the reading or writing of blogs.
The first reason is the content, or absence thereof. There is a tendency among blog writers to write when it amuses them to write, not when they have anything to say.
–from Taylor Campbell’s blog

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals are unconstitutional. Interestingly, the court decided that even though the military commissions violated the Geneva Conventions and the US Code of Military Justice, they were not illegal per se; what was illegal was the fact that Bush set them up by executive order, without […]