Computer simulation, programming, software, technology, research, and more (since 2007)
My hosting service just told me to update to WordPress 2.7 — as the previous version had known security holes. So I did, and after I upgraded, the blog itself broke.
Just after the first post on the front page, there was a nasty error message:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in .../functions.php on line ...
I managed to break the categories in my old system, moving everything to tags, after which my old theme turned out to be too old. So I will tweak this new theme some I think, but now tags is the way to organize this blog. Which was essentially how I misused categories previously.
This maintenance is going to take a while:
Annoying, and a bit funny.
Seems like my blog has been picked up by some spamming machine — at least I hope it is a machine, what a waste of manpower to manually send in spam since I am filtering all comments and not letting anything remotely spam-like through. Anyway, it is kind of interesting to see what kinds of things are being pushed using blog spam. Read on for more, but suffice to say that porn is dominant… Continue reading “Off-Topic: Blog Spam Statistics”
Just found a man with the same name as me also blogging: http://jakobengblom.blogspot.com/. Funny. But I know there are few people with my name in Sweden, so it is not that much surprising.