Random Access Memories

For those of you unaware earlier my website looked like this:

The reason for this was an exploit that a spambot used in the TinyMCE editor on my site. (Which has since been fixed).

But what is more interesting is what it did. It wrote a huge string to every single php file in my website.

Getting it out proved a royal pain in the butt, but I finally came up with the following command (Had to do it twice because the string was so long).

perl -p -i -e ‘s/oldstring/newstring/g’ $(find . -name \*.php)

If you use this remember to use \ before any characters that aren’t numbers or letters, and use \x27 for the ‘ character.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for 24 hours you know that Barack Obama is now the President-elect of the USA, and will be our 44th President

As a staunch liberal it’s thrilling that we’ve cast off any vestige of the last 8 years of incompetence and stupidity. (Except perhaps for Alaska, which seems set to re-elect a convicted felon to the Senate)

Hopefully we can move forward from here and be part of the global dialog, rather than trying to control that dialog.