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diff --git a/_posts/1998-05-16-umtymp_graduation.markdown b/_posts/1998-05-16-umtymp_graduation.markdown
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 title: UMTYMP Graduation
 excerpt: |-
   Wednesday we had our UMTYMP graduation.  Present were <a href="mailto:delmonte@ftmax.com">Molly</a>, <a href="http://www.borchert.com/tom/">Tom Borchert</a>, <a href="mailto:adame@ftmax.com">Adam Engelhart</a>, <a href="mailto:suzy@ftmax.com">Suzy Reichel</a>, <a href="mailto:laureen@ftmax.com">Laureen Ojalvo</a>, <a href="mailto:xinx0007@umn.edu">Eve Xin</a>, and others.  <a href="http://www.math.umn.edu/~shaw/">Doug Shaw</a> gave an astounding speech.  Suzy also gave a speech which was good.  Raj (my brother) and I did not like the food at all.  Other people said the food was alright, but I think maybe my brother and I have higher standards for food.
   <p>Anyway, I got a lot of help for my fourth CSci assignment in Recitation.  Recitation was boring so I emailed <a href="mailto:katie@ftmax.com">Katie</a> for the last two minutes.  There's a link, you can email her too.  I'm going to start using her as my personal wailing wall.  Except I won't cry.  I'll just babble about how I don't want to be in my classroom at the moment.<p>When I got home, Molly and I started working on invitations for our graduation.  Hopefully we'll send them out today or on Monday.<p>Yesterday, Molly and I went to Minnehaha Falls and rain fell on us (which she enjoys more than I) and then hail fell on us (which neither of us enjoy at all).  We ran back to a mini-shelter and then to the car and headed to someplace safe, Arby's.  Molly has sided with me and really likes the Roast Chicken and Pesto Panini Grill sandwich.  We then left for the play at Hopkins (Pirates of Penzance).  I got to talk to the crew and even where a shirt of a crew-member (because mine was sopping wet).  Molly returned to the light, and I found Mike Jorgenson and we sat down and then were joined by Adam and a surprise appearance by <a href="mailto:ForeignElement@black-hole.com">Jason Waye</a>.  The play was very good.<p>We (Molly and I) went home, were tired, started printing labels for the invites.  Then we realized they didn't print what we wanted (well I realized that, Molly was asleep on the couch).  Molly left home, and I went to sleep.<p>Today I worked on my C++ project a little.  It's not too bad at all.  Tomorrow my dad comes back from India during Simpsons/X-files... I hope his plane gets delayed so I don't miss any of the show.
 
-tags: [Uncategorized, highschool, food, friends, computers, general]
+tags: [highschool, food, friends, computers, general]
 ---
 
 Wednesday we had our <acronym title="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program">UMTYMP</acronym> graduation.  Present were Molly, <a href="http://www.borchert.com/tom/">Tom Borchert</a>, Adam Engelhart, Suzy Reichel, Laureen Ojalvo, Eve Xin, and others.  <a href="http://www.math.umn.edu/~shaw/">Doug Shaw</a> gave an astounding speech.  Suzy also gave a speech which was good.  Raj (my brother) and I did not like the food at all.  Other people said the food was alright, but I think maybe my brother and I have higher standards for food.

diff --git a/_posts/1998-05-24-no_title-2.markdown b/_posts/1998-05-24-no_title-2.markdown
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 title: Princess Bride
 excerpt: Finally... I saw <i>The Princess Bride</i>.  That is a very good movie.  It would have been nice to see it on Prom Night, but today was as good a day as any.  I bet there are several web sites dedicated to this movie.
 
-tags: [Uncategorized, highschool, movies]
+tags: [highschool, movies]
 ---
 
 Finally... I saw *The Princess Bride*.  That is a very good movie.  It would have been nice to see it on Prom Night, but today was as good a day as any.  I bet there are several web sites dedicated to this movie.
diff --git a/_posts/1998-06-02-no_power_until_thursday.markdown b/_posts/1998-06-02-no_power_until_thursday.markdown
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+---
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 title: No power until Thursday?
-excerpt: |-
-  Obviously my math does not model reality... well I didn't expect it too do so.<blockquote><i>
-  Northern States Power Co. says it expects to have power back on by late Thursday for most of the the 89,000 customers still without it as of Monday afternoon. NSP says a few areas might not have power restored until Friday.<i><p>from <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/">Pioneer Planet</a></blockquote>
-  Hopefully I can return to my home for more than ten hours.  You know, it's really cold in the morning... you'd not expect that in this season.  It's annoying, because I usually have one or two computers running in my office room that keep me warm.<p>Well anyway, I have the final diagram of how my program works written out.  It should be done tonight... I work more efficiently at the Borcherts because there are less things to distract me (or something).
-
-tags: [Uncategorized, general, learning]
+tags: [webdev]
 ---
 
-Obviously my math does not model reality... well I didn't expect it too do so.
-
->*Northern States Power Co. says it expects to have power back on by late Thursday for most of the the 89,000 customers still without it as of Monday afternoon. NSP says a few areas might not have power restored until Friday.*
->
->from <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/">Pioneer Planet</a>
-
-Hopefully I can return to my home for more than ten hours.  You know, it's really cold in the morning... you'd not expect that in this season.  It's annoying, because I usually have one or two computers running in my office room that keep me warm.
-
-Well anyway, I have the final diagram of how my program works written out.  It should be done tonight... I work more efficiently at the Borcherts because there are less things to distract me (or something).
+Obviously my math does not model reality... well I didn't expect it too do so.
+
+> *Northern States Power Co. says it expects to have power back on by late
+> Thursday for most of the the 89,000 customers still without it as of Monday
+> afternoon. NSP says a few areas might not have power restored until Friday.*
+>
+> from <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/">Pioneer Planet</a>
+
+Hopefully I can return to my home for more than ten hours.  You know, it's
+really cold in the morning... you'd not expect that in this season.  It's
+annoying, because I usually have one or two computers running in my office room
+that keep me warm.
+
+Well anyway, I have the final diagram of how my program works written out.  It
+should be done tonight... I work more efficiently at the Borcherts because
+there are less things to distract me (or something).
diff --git a/_posts/2010-05-19-so-youre-wordpress-has-been-hacked.markdown b/_posts/2010-05-19-so-youre-wordpress-has-been-hacked.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: "So your Wordpress has been hacked"
+tags: [wordpress, webdev, hacks, mozilla]
+---
+
+Last week, someone informed me that my blog had been hacked:
+
+<p>
+    <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davedash/4621504223/"
+            title="My blog got hacked by davedash, on Flickr">
+    <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4621504223_210d430c1f_m.jpg"
+        width="240" height="111" alt="My blog got hacked" /></a>
+</p>
+
+I'm not quite sure what the vector was, Wordpress wasn't very secure and I
+didn't take too many measures to harden it.  A coworker of mine (on our security
+team) decided it might be fun to have a look at the infected Wordpress
+Installation)
+
+### Here's how the hack works
+
+* Your blog appears normal to you and your visitors.
+* Some rogue PHP code detects if Google is crawling your site and modifies
+the text and links so it looks like your website is a viagra phramacy.
+* The links go to other infected blogs and thus builds up page rank for this
+ring of blogs.  So the upside is that you're blog may be a top result... for
+*VIAGRA*.
+
+### Prevention
+
+Here's some tips for prevention, but you can find a lot more by googling for
+Wordpress hacks.  My solutions are more technical:
+
+* Don't use Wordpress - I recently switched to Jekyll since it was conceptually
+easier to understand, and it's hacker-friendly.
+* Remove all users other than your own.
+* Change your password.
+* Check your code into git so you can see what files have changed.
+* Prevent Wordpress from writing to your webroot.
+
+### Restoration
+
+Here's what you'll need to do to de-spam yourself.
+
+1.  Verify that you are still spammed by using
+Google Webmaster Tools|Labs|Fetch as Googlebot.
+2.  Backup your blog and database.
+3.  Move your wordpress installation to a new directory.
+4.  Install Wordpress from scratch.
+5.  Remove all users except for yourself.
+6.  Change your password.
+7.  Copy your theme to your new installation.
+8.  Install *only* the plugins you need.
+
+By step 4 you should be able to verify using *Fetch as Googlebot*
+that your website is no longer an Online Pharmacy.
+
+Good luck.
+
diff --git a/archive/index.html b/archive/index.html
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 title: archives | dave dash
 ---
 <h2>This is everything</h2>
+<p>Most of this is fairly embarassing and of poor quality.</p>
 <ol>
 {% for post in site.posts %}
   {% include item.html %}

diff --git a/index.markdown b/index.markdown
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ title: dave dash
 My name is Dave Dash.  I am a soon-to-be dad and a Senior Web Developer at
 Mozilla for the Firefox Add-ons site.
 
+You can contact me at `dd+onion` (at) `{this domain}`.
 
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