Archive for August, 2006
ESPN serving porn banners
Its a sad day to see such a legitimate site like ESPN.com stoop to serving p0rn banners!
Ok so its technically being served from Undertone Networks, but the ad call is still being served from ESPN’s site.
Hitting reload, I get another gem of a popup.
I understand that a content provider like ESPN has to […]
Wikipedia goes with the workflow
So the German site for Wikipedia has finally come into the 21st Century
and embraced content workflow as reported by cnet’s News.com:
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?
Essentially, if you are anonymous, or have not been a member for some time, your edits will not go live until “approved” by another user. This, in its most basic […]Redirecting your Wordpress RSS feed to Feedburner
Joerg Batterman’s blog for startups included a helpful post for redirecting Typo RSS feeds to Feedburner. The advice is here:
Permanent Redirects to FeedBurner through mod_rewrite for your Typo + Apache blog
Its one of those things that you realize how terribly simple it is, and the advice can easily be transferred over to Wordpress. So, […]My browser stats
Ok, so my site is no traffic machine, but still the below is interesting to me:
No way of knowing if this is a trend or not. But you could make the case that people who visit blogs are already ahead of the bell curve, and sites that always do web usage reports (that show IE […]
Conclusion of my site hack
Thanks to either luck, skill, or the sheer bravado of the person(s) who hacked my site, I was able to track them down after just a few minutes of searching.
First off, after reviewing the logs it was quite apparent that the attackers did not root my server, just my Wordpress installation. They had repeatedly […]
