The September 2008 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready. Topics: • What’s New With ActiveBlogging. • ActiveBlogging’s Easy Bulk Article Poster For WordPress Members have been benefiting from a tool that easily posts multiple articles to a blog of their choosing - here’s how to make the best use of it. • How To Succeed Using Duplicate Content! ‘Duplicate Content Penalty’. Rather than be afraid of it, understand what it REALLY is, and understand how you...

When I first started on the Internet, websites were done by hand - and changes were a pain. Enterprising programmer that I was, I tried a number of solutions to make changes easier - server site includes, a Windows template machine I wrote, even batch files in DOS to copy content. Then in 2004 I tried a program called WordPress. I’d heard about blogs, dismissed it as ‘not for me’, but set it up anyways...

A new version, and an interesting reason - PHP’s built-in random functions aren’t random enough. While the values are good enough for most things, when used for cryptographic purposes (such as passwords) they are inadequate - because people try to hack blogs, there is enough incentive to try again and again to guess (called brute force attacks). With enough clues as to how random numbers are created, they can have an easier time. Think of...