Site Updates
I’m clicking buttons
Be gone with you, J-List and Google ads! You shall enlengthen my sidebar no more! Seriously, other than a chunk of store credit from J-List a few years back, these ads have provided nothing. As this site has no readers, and therefore no one to click on the adds, I figured it would be better … Continue reading
Dave has inspired me to click several buttons
I took a solid 5 minutes and removed the approximately 100 fake spambot users that had registered since the last time I got pissy and removed them. Also, I’ve installed SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, which will hopefully prevent at least some of the damnable bots from returning. It’s only enabled on the registration page and related … Continue reading
Theme updated, horray!
I took some time to update gonad.org’s WordPress theme, Vistered Little, to the newest version. There was an evil security flaw in the version I had been using, though I’m nearly a year behind in noticing this. My idea of “taking some time” is grepping through some php and css, and haphazardly pasting bits here … Continue reading
No, I won’t sit still ’til I’m upside down in the back of your eyes
So, yeah.. I was going to bed, but then I had this great idea to upgrade WordPress and all my freakin’ plugins. So I did. It was relatively painless but time consuming. It seems WordPress now has tagging and other useful features I haven’t yet noticed! Exciting times, let me tell you. Lastly, have some … Continue reading
Image uploader, reborneth!
I finally took the time to do this: Long story short, someone exploited the uploading script I was previously using for my image uploading site. A backdoor was installed, giving them full reign over my account on the server which this site is hosted. Luckily, I caught this before anything malicious could happen, but needless … Continue reading
More shoutbox shenanigans
I previously updated my shoutbox to add some spam blocking functionality. Although this worked well for manually banning spammer IPs (and synchronizing spammer IP lists from other blogs using the same shoutbox), spam still came in by the dozen now and then, sporting more and more IPs each time. I just banned 25 or 30 … Continue reading
Yo, peep dis!
I installed this nice little Gravatars plugin, and added avatars to comments, posts, and the author pages (here’s mine, for example). You (yes, all two of you.. maybe three) can get you own avatar by signing up at Gravatar.com, using the same email address you use for your gonad.org account. Alternatively, you can manually specify … Continue reading
HACK ATTACK! O SHI–
So, someone exploited my image uploading script (formerly here). They installed some HAX0R TOOLZ to steal my INTERNET TUBES. Seriously though, check out this interface they left behind: So, basically they could launch Russian missles from gonad.org.. and here I thought the shoutbox spammers were bad people. OH WELLS.
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