Oh god, we’ve already lost 12 servers. I logged out of all of them and am holed up in an ssh session on my home server. I’ve shut down all outside ports and have been using “kill” very carefully, but the zombie processes keep coming! I don’t know how much longer I can hold out until I have to reboot!

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testing ljxp from real wordpress blog

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About to update the blog to WP 2.5. It should be smooth but if things break, who knows how long I’ll be offline.
Not that I’ve been posting much lately…

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Weird. Posts made with kblogger never show up in my blog. They’re “published”, they get a post ID, I can see them in the database and all fields are the same as posts that do show up (well, with the exception of things I expect to be different. Date. Title. GID, etc.) I even see my to “test” posts made it to twitter, but they don’t show up in the blog. Not even in the management interface where I should see ALL posts, published, draft or otherwise.

OK, WP is working. I can post just fine from the web interface.

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OK, I think I have a clue to what is changing my theme on me.

After posting my last entry, due to the the problems with Drivel only allowing me to select a single category, and not having any way to enter “tags”, I loaded the blog in my browser to edit the post.
Having looked at my blog earlier today for something, I knew as of an hour ago it was showing the correct theme. After posting via drivel (via xmlrpc), the theme was reset to the default.

I’m posting this through Drivel. Let’s see if it resets again…

Well, so much for that theory. Post the entry, reload the main page, theme not reset. I’ll have to keep looking.
I don’t suppose Sadish will see this and offer some insight. Not that I think it’s in any way caused by his theme. I’m sure it’s a problem with /dev/null, but with all his experience with themes, maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll have some clue.

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Any recomendations for a good blogging client for *nix?
Now that I’m getting back into blogging, and reading other’s blogs, I’m looking for a better blog poster app then the web form in my blog.
The best I’ve found of those available in Adept is BloGTK!, however it has a few issues such as not properly downloading my category list.

Correction: the best one I found was Drivel, which does download the categories, but does not provide a toolbar for bold/italics/underscore, linking, etc. BloGTK! provides these, but doesn’t get the categories, so I have to post, then edit in the web interface.

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Just upgraded Wordrpress from 2.2 to 2.3.2 in preparation for beginning blogging again.

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Somehow, someone managed to alter my post about finding an Indian cooking vlog on Youtube into a spam.
Looks like I’m going to have to track down an exploit in WordPress. I suspect one of my plugins. For the time being I’ve disabled one the one my gut tells me caused this.

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