Tomorrow marks the 6th anniversary of bucketFountain. w00t.

twistori is rather interesting - made by the lovely Amy and Thomas who were at Webstock.

After many years (maybe 4?) of using the same theme I thought it was time for a change. I’m still not really satisfied with it, but I’m hoping it will spur me on to keep working on it.

So I’m uploading a fair bit to flickr at the moment. I always *have* to look at the bottom of the homepage, the section called Everyone’s Uploads. Earlier today were two images that contrasted hugely; one from a refugee camp in Jordan, the other from San Frans ‘Bay to Breakers‘ (which looks like fuuuuuuuun):

It’s a small world, but a very different one depending on where you live.

(The image of the Palestinian lasses can be found here, the Californians here.)

Not this morning, but lovely none-the-less:

After nearly 6 years of trouble free interneting, bucketFountain was compromised by evil-doers. The exploit involved changing a theme file so that it called a javascript file that inserted all sorts of hidden spam links into the footer. While I confess many of the links looked highly interesting, they had to go. The worst thing is that bucketFountain has been blacklisted by the almighty Google.

Needless to say I immediately upgraded (which was long overdue) and replacing the offending file in the theme.

A number of good things have come out of this:

• Wordpress 2.5 is spiffing
• This chap has a rather useful category on Wordpress security
• The Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) is excellent

If you run Wordpress, check your blogs source now and go straight to the bottom, it will be obvious if there’s a problem.

From 37Signals, Urgency is Poisonous. Spot-on. And wouldn’t it be great not to be so tied to deadlines.