I’m in Bohol covering the 1st Bohol Internet and Net Security conference. The conference opened early today with sessions on open source solutions and on Red Hat Linux. The beaches look so inviting but I’m staying away - for now. It’s been 27 hours since I last slept, blame it on insomnia, an early boat [...]

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I’ve been testing ServerSideWiki and ZiddlyWiki for weeks now. In those days of heavy-duty testing I used only either service for my notes and tasks list � no jottings on paper, no reminders in my cell phone and no notes saved as e-mail drafts in GMail.
After the tests based on current versions of the two [...]

I have been using Leon Kilat as online identity for years now. I started using the pseudonym in 1999 but I have been fascinated by the story of Leon Kilat since 1998, when I was still with The Independent Post.
The Post put out a special edition for Independence Day 1998 - the centennial of Philippine [...]

Darn it. I should have procrastinated longer. Just a few minutes after I did the fixes described in the previous post, I read the new release announcement in the dashboard. The upgrade went smoothly in all three blogs in our domain. I didn’t even have to deactivate the plugins (not intentional – it’s just that [...]

Abe Olandres posted the warning in his blog, there is a security update for WordPress 1.5.1.3 if your web server runs register_globals = on in the PHP configuration.
What got my attention was the WordPress warning that “Perl and PHP code exist to automatically exploit vulnerable WP 1.5.1.3 sites.”