It’s amazing what a trickle down effect this whole hacking and emergency upgrade with the resulting posts lost has had. I tell you that I have learned my lesson. I will keep my wordpress installation up to date! Of course, if wordpress had been created with more security in mind in the first place I [...]

How frustrating!!!
Especially since one of them is one of my most linked to articles! I’m hoping I can find an old version of the database and somehow figure out a way to restore them. Wish me luck.

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Yeah, I was hacked. My own fault for not keeping this installation up to date.
I’ll be hopefully getting client sites upgraded soon too. This was not fun.
More info here and here. On this site it took the form of links added into the template files, and with a display: none; div surrounding them. Luckily the [...]

There may be some weirdness, and some angst. There usually is. Hopefully the blog won’t be down for long.
This is not my favorite thing to do . . . *sigh*

I finally got FireFox 3 installed this morning, and I’m giving it a good workout.
There were a couple minor annoyances in plugin installations. I had to manually find some of my fave plugins (with one exception noted below) on the mozilla.com site, and upgrade them one by one, since the updater doesn’t seem to be [...]