the Common Place

I spent some time last week fighting off a hack attack on a client’s Wordpress blog. The site was running an old version of wordpress, and basically what the hacker did was upload a new wp-config file to the uploads folder. This vulnerability allowed the hacker to post thousands of links to what appeared to be zombified blogs generating posts with links to websites selling cheap prescription drugs.

I’ve learned much more than I want to know about hijacking Wordpress blogs: apparently it is now the technique of choice for black hat SEO. Now I’m seeing zombie blogs everywhere on google. I assume they dominate the long tail of search results - mostly you notice them when you search some rare term with less than a page of results. For instance, I came across the misspelling “jaundist” as in “I take a jaundist view of this.” I was interested to know whether this was an eggcorn rather than just a misspelling - I imagined someone imagining the “jaundists” as the followers of some French intellectual with a jaded, blasé outlook on life - so I googled it.

Anyway, the term “jaundist” led me to a blog with a plausible url consisting of nothing but scraped, scrambled, and badly machine-translated text, all food-related. (Possibly why I clicked, I love me some foodie porn.) Anyway I like random patterns and nonsense and nuggets of wisdom such as “Jaundist and randomness which can be misunderstood as sillyness is not good toast” and “Dwarvish bums smell awful more than daffodils in october leaking many little wet porridge flavoured weasels dipped in treakle and cream with hundreds of sprinkles” please me inordinately.

Also, some recipes (from the German, via Babelfish or similar):

1 1 / 2 times the amount of chocolate cake recipe floor
1 glass cherries
2 tsp agar-agar
Pk 2 (600ml) aufschlagbare soya cream
2 Pk Sahnesteif
1 cocoa heated swimming EL

* The cake-floor platform in the form of a spring bake on a cake and allow to cool grid with a long knife to cut into 3 floors.
* The cherries (12-16 not crushed prior to the side) with juice in a pot to boil.
* Agar-agar with a little touch cold water, to the cherries, and boil 1-2 minutes kocheln.
* Cherry mass to cool until it begins to gel.
* To the lowest floor, cake-cake ring put the cherry on mass.
* If the cherries are quite firmly become the second floor of cake to the fact very cool.
* The cream with the Sahnesteif detail.
* The cake ring from cake and remove about 1 / 3 of cream pie on the second floor.
* Third gates lay on top floor, the remaining cream on top of the page and distribute.
* The previous cherries in a circle on the cake distribute.
* Cocoa with the help of a fine Siebs sprinkle on the cake.
* Up to be eaten cold.

Decorate with chopped Spam!

Spam and aufschlagbare soya cream- two great tastes that taste great together! Also, click here for another great recipe: Fluffy Mackerel Pudding!