Via collision detection, I bring you the results of my recent fiddling about with the Official Seal Generator:
I made two, and the second one is shown above. I’m not as happy with the first, though I held onto it anyway out of some bizarre notion of posterity.
Maybe I’m just getting lazy. Maybe a change is as good as a rest. Maybe, indeed, I’m hoping to attract people to my syndication feed with actual content. The reason may in fact be irrelevant, but the results aren’t: I’ve switched from a summary to a full-text syndication feed setting. This will make certain people happy, and will probably bewilder a few others.
It saves me the trouble of trying to come up with a clever and witty summary description for each post, though, and anything that makes writing in my journal easier is to be embraced without delay. This poor site has been neglected long enough as it is, wouldn’t you agree?
In other news, I’ve added links to my LiveJournal and my Vox page down there in the “My…” section on the left. Feel free to peruse them and amuse yourself with what I get up to when I’m not writing here for a change. If you’re on LJ at all, and are interested in instant messaging, you should definitely read this entry at the very least.
I think I’m starting to crawl, slowly, out of the emotional hole I’ve lived in for the last few months. Maybe this means I’ll start writing more, as this week’s output might suggest. One can hope, yes?
If you catch the killer, red-handed even, and it’s a hot day in late July, and you gun him down (you’ll figure out how to make it look like self defense later)…
…does that make it a summer-y execution?
(If you can read this, my WordPress 2.0.4 upgrade went well. Whee. I have more to write, later.)
It started with an email. Lil’ asked,
When I went to my blog login, there was a big blurb in red that says:
“MAJOR SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
“Affecting all WP users (this is not specifically a Spam Karma problem). Please immediately disable ‘guest user registration’ on your blog if it’s enabled and advise all your friends to do so (details here). I cannot give too much technical details as it would further endanger vulnerable WordPress users, but trust me this is not a joke.”I have no idea what this means….can you provide me with a clue?
So I went forth and researched. And researched. And researched. Apparently this is the second security flaw of its kind in WordPress, and it affects 1.5 series releases as much as it does the newer 2.0 series. Did I mention that all of us on this server are running 1.5.2?
The new 2.0.4 version is available as of… tomorrow? (This is July 28, and the date stamp on the official announcement is July 29. Does this guy have a TARDIS or something?) Problem is… there’s no fix for 1.5.2. Nor will there ever be a fix, I’m willing to bet. Sure, I’ve disabled ‘guest user registration’, which is actually something I do on every new WordPress install I create so I was ahead of the curve on this by a long ways, but still… if I want security fixes, I have to upgrade.
And upgrade. And upgrade. And upgrade. (Okay, I’ll wait on hers until after she’s finished with her Blogathon. I’m not that stupid.) And… well, you get the idea.
This is not how I wanted to spend my weekend, people. Truly.
UPDATE, Five Minutes Later: Duh. I can’t upgrade anything until after the Blogathon, or I’ll risk overloading my poor underpowered webserver. Well, guess what I’m doing over the course of next week?
One of those “buzzwords” we’ve learned to live with over the years is “24×7” (aka 24/7) which, of course, indicates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I’ve never really liked this term, but that’s just a personal quirk. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it.
I’ve bumped into an expansion of that term that bothers me a fair bit, though. It’s cheesy, and what’s worse is that it doesn’t even make sense. If 24 is the number of hours in the day, and 7 is the number of days in the week, if you want to expand that logic then you’d have to use the number of weeks in the year, right? So where does “24×7×365” come from? Last time I checked, there aren’t over three hundred weeks in a given year. By all rights it should be “24×7×52,” and even then I wouldn’t exactly be happy with it… but it wouldn’t make me quite so actively unhappy.
I can hardly expect any sort of widespread, meaningful change just because some random nutjob on the Internet has pointed out the inherent absurdity in play. Complaining about it provides some amusement value, though.
