Archive for the ‘blog’ Category


WordPress vulnerabilities when allowing subscribers

I recently was twiddling bits in the WordPress Admin console and noticed that people were not allowed to register for my blog.  Now, I’m not sure why anyone would choose to register, but I didn’t see any reason to stand in their way, if they felt the need.  So, I checked the box (or unchecked [...]

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What an accomplishment!

Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]

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And we’re back…

Ugh! What a frustrating time it’s been, having my blog broken. There have been so many times I wanted to post something, but I couldn’t, because Pebble had lost its mind. It would sporadically accept new posts, then trash them. All the while, it’s spewing errors into my Tomcat logs at a rate of about [...]

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