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WordPress v2.0.3

On By westiIn Asides, Security, WordPress1 Comment

The latest bug fix increment to the current stable WordPress version is now out. WordPress 2.0.3 addresses the recent low risk security vulnerability and adds a number of other small security and bug fixes. The biggest change in this version is the introduction of nonces to protect the admin pages instead of relying on referrers which are increasing being disabled by personal firewall software. Those of you using my WordPress Version Check plugin should now see an upgrade message in your WordPress admin pages.

How not to comment spam!

On By westiIn Asides, WordPress3 Comments

I was hit by a run of attempted comment spam last night by someone obviously using a new tool they downloaded from useless-comment-spammers.com. The first attempted comment was so obviously spam it was untrue:

Author : Use Keyword Here
E-mail : You@Your-email.com
URI    : http://www.Your-Domain.com/Your-Page.htm
Comment:
Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing
so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single
link will not.

You would think that they at least had the spare brain cells to read the script they were attempting to spam with before starting there spam run!

Some people just don’t get ebay!

On By westiIn Asides, Rants

It amazes me that some people still don’t quite understand how ebay works. I am currently trying to purchase a CD, Deep Forest by Deep Forest, secondhand. It’s quite old but there seems to be a few available to purchase at a cheaper price than amazon are selling them for so I thought I would try my luck with ebay. The other day a quick search netted 3 copies currently available which I added to my ebay watchlist and was waiting till near the end of the auctions before bidding. I checked this morning to see how they were doing to find that one new user had bid on all three and was currently in the position where they had won one of the auctions which closed last night and were winning the other two even after in one particular case another new user had tried in vain to outbid them driving the price up from ~50p to ~£6 in the space of 5 or so minutes.