Wordpress updated, etc at Daniel Spisak on Technology

I finally went ahead and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1. I ended up having to uninstall the Bad Behavior plugin because, well, it was behaving badly. Namely when I tried to login to the admin page of my blog from home it thought my home IP address was a known bad IP address which sounds pretty wrong to me. So I went ahead and logged into my server via SSH and tried to login to the admin page using Lynx on the console and Bad Behavior then had a conniption fit about being connected to from localhost which in my book was the last straw. You should *ALWAYS* allow localhost to connect to you dammit, you damn dumb POS overblown PHP script. A quick rm of the Bad Behavior directory got things back to normal thank god.

While I was at it I also updated all of my plugins and tinkered around abit with the backend scripts for the Redoable WP theme I am using in an attempt to get some annoying MySQL errors to stop when I am in the administrative interface with some luck. Apparently the author of the theme is swamped with real work and uni studies so I can understand their predicament. In the meantime I might go check out the K2 theme people and see where they are these days. Last I looked it was at a point where you had to sync with nightly SVN updates which I thought was rather ridiculous a thing to have to do for a bloody WP theme to work reliably.

More updates to come.

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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