I have finally updated to the latest version of Wordpress and detected several different spam attempts in my blog.
- The
index.phpandwp-content/index.phpfiles contained a couple of unwanted links (their size should be less than 100 bytes). - One of my posts had some invisible links added at its end. One to a chinese site, disguised with the
unescapeJavascript function and others hidden by setting the style todisplay: none.
Thomas Goetschi of team schlau.ch presented today the Plone solution for www.bern.ch at the Day 1 of the Plone Conference in Vienna.
Triggered by a Slashdot Story I tried to find the best aerial photo of my home town Berne. Here is what I’ve found so far:
- Google Maps, not very detailed (linked from the Brad’s UNESCO World Heritage map links page
- map.search.ch, much more detailed, showing the “Bundeshaus”
- The most detailed photos I found at the official town map site. When you choose “Orthofoto” from the “Darstellung” selection and go to the coordinates 600 420/199 550 you can see the fancy new plaza in front of the Bundeshaus at almost any scale (1:1000 works fine)
If you know of other photograph sources, please leave a comment.
Read More ...For some time now I wanted to change my weblog to a server based one. I did no extensive research, but what I read about WordPress made my try it first locally and then for good. So far I’m happy with it.
To get the nice permanent links (like http://pesche.schlau.ch/2005/04/14/wordpress-and-new-hosting-provider/), the web server (if it is an Apache httpd) has to support mod_rewrite. After some failed tries I mailed my hosting provider (hosttech.ch) if they could enable mod_rewrite. This is the answer I got:
Read More ...Ever since I started my blog, I was looking for a neat solution to upload my internet pages whenever Nanoblogger updates the local copy.
I didn’t want just a recursive upload, because some directories (e.g. data) shouldn’t be publicly accessible. My first attempt was a script using ncftpput, but it always uploads the whole site.
I wanted a more intelligent solution that copies only new and changed files. This is presumably a very common tasks, there should be plenty of ways to achieve it. But almost all FTP clients capable of intelligent uploads involve some GUI. The only command line client I could find is lftp (available on OS X from Fink and from Darwinports).
Read More ...The Firefox New York Times Ad is finally out (PDF or a smaller PNG); it took much longer than the German ad in the FAZ ;)
While reading an interview with Tim Berners-Lee concerning the Semantic Web, I stumbled for the second time in a couple of days over the friend of a friend project FOAF.
I don’t know if FOAF has a future or if it is just another geek thing – but I couldn’t resist and generated my own FOAF description.