DXS Machina

Well, that was interesting… see first I got sick. Really sick, I spent all day sleeping on Wednesday and it’s still making me cough today. But thankfully I’ve got it on the run and feel pretty good. Now being all sick and messed up my hours were even weirder then normal…

I ended up catching a robot using my old wordpress image uploader to send txt files to my tmp folder on ghostcircles. I noticed it because in the wordpress admin control the image uploader was pointing to a completely different folder then it usually does. So, I freaked out. Cause wow, not good. I reset the upload folder and my password and spent the rest of the day wondering what was going on… then I checked my email and “hello” bounced back spam originating from my webserver using my email address.

See this happened before like um… 6 months ago and I was all “OMG who got my email address and spamed the crap out of people??” And damn it it’s all coming back to me. This is when I learned that yes indeed there are still people who think they should respond to spam as I got one email that just said “Bitch.” in it. It amused me greatly even though I didn’t send this um… crap. This time I think I cut off the upload in the middle by changing back the upload folder to the normal folder because I only got 260 bounce backs instead of 1200. Whee.

I was using the old version of the “iimage-browser-plugin” for wordpress from 2005 so if any of you are still running that you might try seeing if there’s a new version that DOESN’T allow you to set you upload folder to the very top area of you website. Cause yeah security risk and such. Also the newer versions of wordpress have a pretty nice built in image uploader that is much more secure. You’ll need a newer browser to use it like firefox but hey it’s free and stuff.

So yeah, I upgrade to the newest version of wordpress which was incredibly easy. Smoothest 10 version upgrade I’ve ever done. I still need to update my poor site design though. I’d like to put in a shopping cart system to buy prints and comics and stuff and I’d like to put my comics up which I could do with Comicpress but I’d like to keep my journal as well… and that just seems to be one too many things to fit into one site. =/

I’m just going to have to find sometime to really think about how to cram all of that stuff in there and still make it easy to look at and buy things. I mean I have enough room I could set up a shop as a stand alone but it’d be nice to have it all be one site.