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I’m playing with new themes and some other changes on this site. If you find some things broken, please bear with me, the dust should settle soon.

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With the announcement of an SQL injection vulnerability in Wordpress 1.5.2, it was as good an opportunity as any to finally take the plunge and update this blog to 2.0.1. It was completely painless. Even my modified theme (with the “Linky” style) worked perfectly, and all my plugins worked fine as well. Happy happy.

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Wordpress 2.0 will be released any day now, and like any self-respecting geek, I would like to upgrade as soon as possible, just to have the shiniest, newest toy. The trickiest issue seems to be plugin compatibility. Here’s my current list of enabled plugins, and their status according to the compatibility list:

Akismet 1.12 -worksAkismet spam [...]

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After a few days using Akismet, it seems to work quite well. My blog doesn’t receive so much spam so far, but since I installed it 9 days ago, it has caught 11 spam messages, all correctly, and I haven’t had to moderate any more spam. Woohoo!

Technorati Tags: blogging, spam, wordpress

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As of late, the amount of spam attempts on my blog has increased considerably. So far I’ve been deleting it manually (I have all comments moderated anyway), but it’s getting tiring, so I’ve just installed Akismet, we’ll see how it works…

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I recently started looking at digg for interesting news and links. It has a very cool feature: you store the details of your blog, and then you can post articles from digg with a single click. So I created a low-privilege account here, entered that account info on digg, set the default category to “Linky” [...]

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Bwaha! I finally sat down and tracked the problem with the extra white space. It turned out to actually be a bug in the very nice Coppermine integration plugin I use, but which had been fixed in the latest version. It was inserting a spurious “clear: both” that was causing the problem.

I’m very happy to [...]

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You may have noticed that the site was offline for three days. This was “upgrade weekend”, and it was a major change - I reinstalled my server from MacOS X Server to Gentoo Linux PPC. After a bumpy start, things are starting to get back into shape. There are still some things that may not [...]

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Wordpress 1.5.2 is out, and I have upgraded this site. I always find it amazing how easy the process it. Wordpress is a real example of a well-written and easy-to-use web application. This release supposedly fixes issues with category settings from Ecto - this post will be the test.

Update: categories work!

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Wow - I got my first round of comment spam today. I guess that means my little blog has gotten of age For now I’m still relying on Wordpress’ built-in features (all the spam was caught by moderation), but maybe I’ll have to look at some of the other available plugins….

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