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Attack on harryrclarke.com

Posts from January 6-25 have vanished after a hacking attack last night.  I am seeking to beef up security and would appreciate advice.

Update: Things are still not working quite right now. Posts disappear as do comments.  It was a frantic morning as I sought to restore things – eventually a phone call did it. [...]

Adelaide ACE09

I am attending the Australian Conference of Economists in Adelaide. These days ACE is a much smaller conference than it has been in the past though I still think it does have an attractiveness. Excellent speakers and a great location at the University of Adelaide.  Main observation – the striking though predictable role of the [...]

Blog syntheses

I successfully transferred 1,594 posts and 8,101 comments from my previous Blogger account to the current WordPress platform.  For some reason a few early posts were missed and the earlier graphics were transferred in miniature but now almost everything – back to February 2006 – is in one place. 

As a separate issue I got asked last [...]

Spam, abuse & inadvertent comment deletion

Two points:

1. I won’t tolerate abusive comments on this blog.  I will delete such comments ASAP and will permanently ban people posting such comments.  I will not revise this view on the basis of claims of my own allegedly past bad behaviour. Life is too short to waste on such discussants.  Critical comments are welcome – [...]

Posterous

This software - Posterous – is useful if you wish to put a presentation online quickly and easily. You can email pictures, text, powerpoint presentations – indeed anything – to the Posterous website and it is automatically posted for you on a blogsite.  

As an example I attach two recent Powerpoint presentations I gave – one on [...]