As I was running Wordpress 2.2 until five minutes ago, this post at techcrunch caught my eye:
Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, Wordpress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other purposes. Recently there have been a [...]

Well my donations plug-in is complete.
I’ll release it properly on the Wordpress site when I get a chance - but I thought you lot would like the scoop first.
In the mean time you can download it from here.
It’s a plug-in that let’s people know who you’re donating to at the moment. I try to donate [...]

I’ve decided of late that I don’t give enough money. So, to remedy this I’ve decided to donate $50 a month to different organisations whose work I admire and wish to support.
Then I thought that I’d like to encourage others to do the same. I’m also teaching myself php.
These things combined have lead me to [...]

I’ve updated my blog roll a bit. Mostly I’ve removed a couple of webcomics that just weren’t doing it for me.
However I’m going all the way back through the xkcd archives at the moment and love it.
The other thing I’m loving at the moment is the FAIL Blog. It’s probably my favourite blog at the [...]

At the risk of being a little premature, I’d like to welcome Kakariki to the Goonanism fold.
Check out Radicalcrossstitch.com

For the first time in a long time I actually checked where links to my blog are coming from and came across this post over at Bloggreen.
Now, I do regularly read Bloggreen so was surprised to have missed the post but there you go. The problem is it was about a month ago. But perhaps [...]

The Goonanism family has just expanded a little.
Vitriolics Anonymous* is now hosted on Goonanism and makes for some fine reading. Add it to your bookmarks and daily reads people - you will be rewarded.
Is it just me or is Kool Thing about the greatest song ever written?
* Please note I take no responsibility for the [...]

I’ve been asked to contribute to the G20 Alternatives blog. Please go over and have a bit of a read.
Don’t forget that large contingents of people will be converging on Melbourne to protest the G20 meeting next weekend (18th and 19th Nov). There’s lots going on, not least of which is the Alternative G20 [...]

I know it is a poor excuse for a post but I have added a new blog to my blog role.
That said I’ve no idea what it is like but it is the blog of someone I met here in Dublin the other day. We went on a day trip to Kilkenny together.
So I [...]

A new search engine focusing on purely Australian blogs has been launched called Gnoos. It is very encouraging to see such an initiative so hopefully it will be successful.
You can read an article about it in The Age here.
[Founder Ben Barren] estimates that there are about 750,000 Australian blogs scattered among a range of [...]