One of the factors contributing to my blog’s untimely demise was that I was running an old version of Wordpress, and got hacked. Somebody managed to exploit a flaw in Wordpress’s plugin system to gain access to my server. Fortunately, the shell access was limited to the same account as the web server (apache), which runs with very limited permissions, so it seems that the damage was minimal, and I was able to clean everything up with little difficulty.
As part of my recovery process, however, I installed a new version of Wordpress, which ate my categories. I’m not sure if it messed up anything else (I foolishly neglected to back up my database before the upgrade), but everything appears to be intact.
Today’s project was a little bit of GUI work and a little bit of glue code to hook up Japanese kanji prompts to the newly-created Leitner back-end. The quiz program works fairly well so far, but there are two major pieces missing. First, the main screen. Second, any sort of “save” capabilities. So, even though the Leitner system knows that it’s supposed to prompt you again with this particular kanji in four days to make sure you still remember it after a time delay, if you close the program, all that information goes away. I’d like to get that up and running as soon as possible, because I think the program will actually be a very useful study tool for me as soon as I have that part working.
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I’m glad you are getting thing figured out… I missed you!
Aw, thanks Steffy!