Wordpress has serious issues with interpreting text cut from Microsoft Word or from Open Offices Writer. I’ve been beating my head against the wall for a few months now trying to figure out why my content was not displaying in Internet Explorer. It wasn’t until recently when I discovered that my new blog, the one run as an actual business did not render content in Internet Explorer. This discovery prompted me to start troubleshooting and investigating. During the course of my trouble shooting I was convinced that my service provider was at fault. I Ranted and Raved about the issue only to discover that the problem was the second common denominator… ME!

Apparently the Encoding gets a little mixed up when pasting from Word or from Writer and Internet Explorer will not display the content properly. So, from this point forward I guess I will be cut and pasting from Textpad, Notepad, or Gedit!

Content should be displaying in all browsers, for the few people who visit via RSS please check browser test. The last 10 posts should be displaying content clearly. Beyond that, I’m being lazy!

From Darkreading

MX Logic last week reported a worm that had generated over 8 million spam messages in an apparent attempt to recruit bots for Srizbi. (See New Worm Spawns More Than 8M Spam Messages.)

Srizbi still hasn’t captured the same amount of attention as Storm, even though it’s been quietly gaining steam. Last month, Marshal reported that Srizbi was sending over 60 billion spam messages (malicious and non-malicious) each day, more than all other botnets put together.

I’ve definitely seen an increase. I completely disregard anything in my gmail spam folder but my emh account for hamsterswheel has been averaging 6 SPAM messages per day. I’m only used to getting around 1 or 2 so this has been a significant increase this week. I wonder if this new botnet has anything to do with it!