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No Longer Blogging

bruce — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:11:47 +0000

We’re kinda done blogging here as RC posts everything on Facebook. Pretty soon we’ll move on to Twitter…

chirp…

bruce — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:40:16 +0000

crickets…

Upgraded to 2.7

bruce — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:17:50 +0000

I upgraded WordPress to 2.7 so that I can post from my iPhone. Expect many more typos in the future.

Just tested…Marsedit still works.

Hacked

bruce — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:34:46 +0000

Corkerns.com was hacked with an exploit that inserted a link to a malware site. I discovered it by a malware warning that Safari threw up when I went to Corkerns.com. When I went to Firefox, there was no warning, so I first thought it was a bogus Safari warning . I overrode the warning and used the Activity window on Safari to view the list of files open from the website. A file named txx was open, inserting a redirect to another IP address that hosted bad shtuff!

Next, I went back to Firefox and viewed a list of open javascripts, since that would be the most likely way to attack the site. A javascript was being blocked automatically by Firefox since it originated at a different site (e.g., *not* at corkerns.com). Therefore, Firefox was protecting me all along.

I then downloaded all the javascript on the website and searched through it for the malware link that sent you to the rogue site. I couldn’t find anything, so next I replaced all the WordPress code with the latest version. That did the trick and wiped out the bad code.

I’ve never been one to upgrade Corkerns.com immediately upon release of a new WordPress version, but I may rethink that strategy.

Okay…fixin’ it now…

bruce — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:35:22 +0000

I’m working on it as time permits. The problem is that photos I uploaded months ago aren’t there any more. It takes a little while to find the original and crop to fit the web site format. I’ll get to it when I get to it…

Messed Up!

bruce — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:43:31 +0000

Okay, I’m an idiot and wasn’t backing up my uploads or the WordPress theme I designed and now I’m paying the price. The pictures are still around somewhere, but I’ve got to recreate the right size and upload again. As far as the theme goes, that was no great loss anyway.

I’ll get around to fixing this next weekend…unless the weather is good.

In the meantime, here’s my Flickr photos and the McCluer Academy Class of 1979 information (requires a password that I sent you after the last reunion…).

website changes

bruce — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:24:00 +0000

I made a few simple changes on the website to widen the site. I noticed that it was looking pretty narrow on an average monitor. The target size before was 800 pixels wide. I’m now going to 1,000.

The header picture was taken in 2005. We’ll update that photo in the spring.

Let me know if there are any problems with the changes, like text that’s not visible or clickable.