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WordPress hack is nasty – check your site security

May 8, 2010

If you run a WordPress blog, drop everything and go check your blog security!  Wait… I mean drop everything except reading this blog.  Read, then drop.  Right, hope that is sorted out now.
The point is that there is apparently a security hole in WordPress that is A) a serious pain in the ass, and B) [...]

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Year in review and the Ghosts of Topics Past

December 7, 2009

Image by Moriartys via Flickr

I’ve never been a big celebrator of the New Year – a reset of our planetary lap timer – as having any particular meaning.  I reset my life, goals, directions, and attitude whenever it seems time. But 2009 was a completely crazy year for me in nearly every possible sense.
I rode [...]

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Do you have the skills for Social Media?

September 17, 2008

A long time back I set up some job alerts at different career sites like Dice and Monster.com for Social Media positions.¬† I hadn’t received an email alert from Monster.com in a while, and I’d almost entirely forgotten I had it still active.
Until this week.
Monster.com is either drunk out of their minds, or there is [...]

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Meanwhile, back on the blog ranch…

August 24, 2008

Just cleaning up and getting this place up to WordPress 2.6 and refreshing a few of the plugins. Once upon a time it used to be a pain to maintain web sites, then blogs came along to simplify the content management and posting.¬† Now blogs have become so feature rich I sometimes think we’re back [...]

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Blogaholism… a dangerous disease

June 8, 2008

I think I’ve finally started enough blogs to fill my drunken, insatiable need for the things.
This blog was morphing into a writing blog, but now I’ve spun up Writing Is Cake with some folks from my writing group, so all my writing nonsense is now over there.
I’m also in the process of kicking off Ignite [...]

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Some people never learn

March 26, 2007

…and I am one of those. Way back before the interweb was open to the great unwashed masses I ran a computer bulletin board system (BBS) in Arizona called first SHO-TRON, then The Rock Garden. It was on this BBS where I first learned the dangers of yammering about things upon which I [...]

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