Nineteenth Century Fax Machine?

I stumbled across this little gem in the September, 1893 issue of the American Journal of Photography (Volume 14, No. 165).

Hello world (again)!

A few days ago, I began to notice traffic to the site using some rather strange search queries. I couldn’t find anything suspicious, so I didn’t really think anything of it. I just figured my SEO plugin was acting up.

My suspicions were confirmed when I received an email from a rather thoughtful sysadmin who was on the receiving end of some spam listing several of my pages. My site was hit by a spam-injection attack, which generally exploits vulnerabilities in plugins, and is much more invasive than comment spam. I had two choices: dig through all of the code to find the exploit, or wipe it and start over. After several hours of snooping around, I have inconclusively concluded (that’s right) that the site was compromised by an exploit in my Platinum SEO plugin. The irony has not been lost on me.

Well, I completely reinstalled the WordPress package on my server, restored a backup of the posts and theme, and fought with MySQL for a while. The blog now seems to be up and running again, spam free.

The timing is particularly curious in light of the recent Blogger vs. WordPress discussions I’ve been having with various folks via Twitter (you know who you are). I still stand by my choice, even though it can occasionally be a pain in the ass.

Good to see the Muppets are still around.

No…words…should have sent…a poet…

I am so unbelievably excited about this game, even more so now that I’ve seen this trailer.