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Comment on WordPress Pharma hack removal instructions by Lucas

Lucas — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:18:18 +0000

thanks Jacque. I’ll pass this on to my friend Greg who helped me, and I’ll definitely follow your tips when I muck out the next site I need to fix. There are a few!

I did see the pearsonified post, but it was too complex for me to follow, which is why i decided to make my own instruction manual after getting instructions from Greg.

If you find out what the hole is in your own site that keeps you getting re-infected, do let me know. It’s a real time waster isn’t it?

cheers
Lucas

Comment on WordPress Pharma hack removal instructions by Jacque

Jacque — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:30:59 +0000

My best source for fixes to the pharma hack is http://www.pearsonified.com/2010/04/wordpress-pharma-hack.php — the instructions there are roughly parallel to what you’ve noted here, with some differences. I note two here:
1) in step 2, pearsonified suggests looking for all option_names starting with rss_ EXCEPT for a few that are needed by the application: “language” “use_excerpt” and “excerpt_length”.
2) in step 3 above, there are some additional bogus files to search for (see pearsonified’s step one).
Good luck, and thanks for publishing your notes, hopefully it will help others. I will be examining my site to see if some of your steps will improve my process. Right now I find that every couple of months I’ve been re-infected, so there’s a hole somewhere . . .

Comment on Get my goat by » My Walking Workout CAOS201 Social Intersections

» My Walking Workout CAOS201 Social Intersections — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:55:19 +0000

[...] walk doesn’t have the significance or or backstory of Lucas’ Get My Goat walk, but it did give me something new to do. Normally when I walk, I have a destination or an [...]

Comment on Touchy Feely by Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:48:44 +0000

Well, i didn’t see the show either, so i’m looking forward to seeing the documentation on the TF site. In fact, the issue of “not having been there” is one of the perennial problems of “this type of practice” – how to frame what went on in retrospect, for the edification of those who weren’t physically present… lots of mythmaking can go on!

your thoughts about these distinctions (between cynical/truth, between art and social work etc) are really interesting, i hope you expand on them with specific reference to your project – i think that kind of deep reflection is what helps move this discussion forward.

Comment on Touchy Feely by lauren

lauren — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:52:11 +0000

oh lucas, i’m a bit bummed that i can’t go back in time and read this when you wrote it and have seen amy’s show.

some of these questions came up about the work i did at the collingwood housing estate, although i didn’t necessarily write about them in such eloquent terms.

having made that work, i firmly believe that it’s ok for artists to make work that is cynical, etc, etc. but not in a social engaged practice. people’s lives are not that cynical and, without being a polyanna, the most intense and amazing responses i received from people were along the lines of me having represented and reflected a truth about their lives without either glossing over the shit, or sticking them in the mire of it.

to find beauty in the shitness is a term i have used a bit lately and i’m sticking with it.

oh, and being a social worker is very different to being an artist. i feel quite clear about that distinction, but i still firmly believe that artists (as opposed to art) can make an intense and amazing difference in communities that have difficulties.

Comment on Two new projects by Mike Leggett

Mike Leggett — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:41:53 +0000

The Green Bans Art Walk through the Cross and Wooloomalloo was a quite unique experience, like living in a documentary film, with a voiceover commentary from our guide as we moved from one location to the next. At each of these we met one of the people who had participated in the historic Green Bans back in the 70s; I lived in England then but the events in Sydney were reported in the media as it was one of the occasions Unionists came together for the broader social good, in this case, saving the historic and architectural character of many parts of Sydney under threat from property developers. What made the walk quite extraordinary was meeting the people whose names I had read about 40 years previously. Each of the walks were recorded and it is to be hoped that this archive will find an appropriate keeping place.
(Now I’ll go back to tracing L.I’s past….)

Comment on Antarctic Ice Shelves by Auburn Library (Upstairs) | Biblioburbia: The Library Files

Auburn Library (Upstairs) | Biblioburbia: The Library Files — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:33:47 +0000

[...] in Sweden, “the world’s largest hotel made of ice and snow”. My friend Lucas once built a wall at this hotel. The ice melts in springtime so the hotel needs to be rebuilt again come winter. This is probably [...]

Comment on The Great West Brunswick Goat Walk by Rory Hyde Projects / Blog » Blog Archive » west brunswick sculpture triennale rulez

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:44:07 +0000

[...] Good grief Lucas’ Great West Brunswick Goat Walk sounds like a hoot! Surely a highlight of this inaugural festival so far. Posted: March 12th, [...]

Comment on Artlink Underground by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:40:11 +0000

Jessie Lymn, who wrote an article for this edition of Artlink, has posted up her article at this link: http://luminen.net/when-zines-meet-archives-above-and-below-ground-collections The article is titled "When zines meet archives: above- and below-ground collections"

Comment on Learning from Experience: in League with the City of Melbourne by Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:39:47 +0000

Amy Spiers has written a thoughtful response to the League of Resonance Project, in which she (as a participant in the project) questions the efficacy of this form of open-arms sociability-as-art. Her essay asks whether works like the League's tend to bracket out "dead ends and failed moments of connection" (even though they abound in them!) and suggests:

Perhaps we just need to engage people with greater sophistication and thematise these problems in the work – allowing for disconnection, fragmentation, friction and lack of interest to have an impact on the outcome.

You can read her whole article here.