Back (really)
It was about 6 months ago that my blog got hacked. Some Movable Type vulnerability or something resulted in a call from my hosting provider, telling me they had to take my site down. Rather than take the steps to fix it, I left it down, and moved on to other things.
In the time since, I’ve thought about posting one thing or the other to my blog, but the urge was never enough to get me to do anything about it. In the last month or so, however, as the urge grew, I started to take steps to bring it back. I brought the old blog back and updated Movable Type to hopefully block whatever security hole screwed me the first time. But I’m tired of MT and tired of the constant stream of “New comment posted” emails that are just spam bot after spam bot.
So I moved to Wordpress. Why Wordpress? It’s lightweight, more hackable (PHP), Matt Mullenweg seems like a nice guy (we played a strategically horrible game of Werewolf together at Etech, where we were the two werewolves), and it powers the Flickr Blog. Plus, Derek had recently unveiled a nice clean Wordpress theme that I liked. And Akismet is a top-notch spam filter, which has already (silently) protected me from comment spam.
So, there we go. Now then, what were those things I wanted to post?
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