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Surfing the blogosphere is just like, oh I don’t know, detecting contaminants in water

| October 30, 2007 | 0 Comments

Some crazy academics have written a very academic paper (PDF) on how you can use the same system to figure out where to put sensors in the water to detect contaminants, and make sure we catch all the good stories in the blogosphere. Oh goody! Basically, all you have ... View Post

WordPressGarage now has a Google PageRank!

| October 29, 2007 | 6 Comments

I just noticed that WordPressGarage finally has a Google PageRank! For many many months, this blog has had no PageRank, for reasons I don't completely understand. It seems that Google sweeps the web very infrequently, doling out page ranks as they go along. These PageRanks stick until the next time around, ... View Post

Get ready to update WordPress…again

| October 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/10/wordpress-231-release-candidate-1/ Over 20 bug fixes. What can I say except "sigh." View Post

WordCamp Israel overview

| October 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

WordCamp Israel happened yesterday. It was all videotaped and is supposed to be put online at some point, but it's all in Hebrew (except for Lorelle's lecture), so here is a quick overview of what was said and done:

Lorelle was great. Her lecture was similar to the

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Automattic for sale? Yikes.

| October 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

It seems that it's just rumors so far, but Automattic, the company behind our favorite blogging platform, may be up for sale. This makes sense. They've invested money, time and energy in building up a huge user base ... View Post

Lorelle is coming to WordCamp Israel!

| October 2, 2007 | 4 Comments

It's now official - Lorelle Van Fossen (yes, THE Lorelle) is going to be the keynote speaker at the upcoming WordCamp Israel conference! When: Oct. 25, 9am to 4pm Where: Michlelet Afeka - Bney Efraim, Tel Aviv ... View Post

Happy New Year! I’ll be offline until Sunday.

| September 12, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) starts tonight. It is usually a two-day holiday, but this year it ends when Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath which is on Saturday) begins, so we have three days of holidays ahead of us. So no new posts here until Sunday. I'll be busy praying ... View Post

DESCRIPTION: Benjamin Flesch has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "style" parameter in wp-admin/upload.php (when "post_id" is set to a negative integer

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