Brian A. Thomas .com

We were recently hacked. I am trying to mitigate damage as I write this. Hopefully I’ll have Internet access back at home real soon so I can properly fix everything.

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If you are using Firefox 3, such as we are, some parts of this site are may not rendering properly. None of the videos are showing up. They show up with Internet Explorer or if you use IE Tab on Firefox. Hopefully a fix will be found… Not sure if it is a Wordpress issue [...]

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Not sure what the problem is yet, but if you click on an individual post title, or the More link, it doesn’t work. Even on ones I knew to be working not too long ago. For some reason, I am getting a 404 error when WordPress tries to go to an individual post.
The Permalink structure [...]

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You may see Google AdSense ads appear in the menu with the “Support This Site” section. I am not seeing them yet on my computer, but I think my PC blocks them, so I can’t confirm if they will be there or not…
EDIT: They are there and my computer was blocking us from seeing them, [...]

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Thanks to the wonderful people at my host, A Small Orange, we are back online after a few sketchy days.
A reminder, the site will be down for a little soon as I upgrade to the new version of WordPress once it comes out. It should be out the 10th, though I may wait until that [...]

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I changed themes again (a few times today actually as I tested various ones out).
I’ll probably update WordPress itself here real soon. I spent this morning updating the themes and plugins to make sure they are up to date, though I may wait until 2.5 comes out in a few days.
The host seems to be [...]

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EDIT: As I jumped from 33rd to 1st, this isn’t a Nelson, New Zealand Blog… at least yet. So if you are searching Google or whatever, ignore this entry… hopefully you see this show up before you follow the link. Original post below:
I am presently the 33rd Google result of looking for: Nelson, New [...]

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I finally fixed the overly light text on block quotes, so they should be easier to read now. Sorry for the overly long delay on that one.

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I turned off Intense Debate for the moment.
It will return.
Meanwhile, in unrelated news, it seems over half the Internet isn’t available to us at the moment. Road Runner must be having big DNS issues. I can guarantee if I called about it they would say they weren’t having any issues.

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Okay, so I have been playing with Intense Debate (ID) for today. Most of the problems I have run into are either problems with compatibility with my theme, or other plugins.
For example, my theme used to put a little gif on the sidebars for list items, however, I had to turn that off for now [...]

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The text for this website seems to be funky. For some reason the white background is missing, I am working on it.
EDIT: As you may be able to tell, it is fixed now. Seems WordPress doesn’t like iframes, which is what the default XBox Live gamer tag used to display itself… Thankfully there was a [...]

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I decided to use a new theme for a while at least. I’ll get some of the things back on in a bit. This theme is GStyles by milo, check out his other themes.
I know about the error on individual post pages. I am tracking that error down now…
EDIT: I did some editing of some [...]

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I got rid of the Tag Cloud on the sidebar to the right. It is still available on the Tag Cloud page and I may bring it back. For right now I put categories back on the sidebar.

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If you see something with a double underline, that is a context link, and not a link I manually generated. Context links are generated by Amazon to help provide revenue to pay for the expense of running this site. I’ll see how well they work out to see if we keep the context links or [...]

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Sorry if you tried to access the site from last night to this morning. Last night the host had a server problem so it was down for a while then. This morning I am upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, the Tarski theme, and a few plugins. The main WordPress upgrade happened already, but [...]

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As you can see, I am back online. I think the total downtime was less than 30 minutes, mostly to wait for my FTP client to delete all the old files from the server and than upload all the new ones. I am not sure why the deleting of the files took so long.
Things that [...]

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The site should be down for a couple hours some time this weekend for maintenance.

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While upgrading the site, I had to turn of Akismet for a few minutes, in that time 2 comment spams slipped through. In the short time it has been installed over all, it has caught 14,467 comment/trackback spams. I have to say, I am glad I am not doing the spam tracking myself, since it [...]

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I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 but kept getting the following error:
302 Found
The document has moved here.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
That is the error in Firefox, apparently the error in IE shows up as:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
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It might not look too differant, but the theme changed. I stopped using Canvas, a great plugin for WordPress and started using the Tarski theme directly. The newer version of Canvas requires PHP 5, which my ISP doesn’t have yet do to backwards compatibility issues with some older PHP scripts.
There are a few issues being [...]

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