Thanks to a timely observation by Steven, I found out that this site has been hacked. It appears to be spammers who have exploited a vulnerability in my forum software to inject HTML onto various pages. I have since upgraded my forum software with the necessary patches and while I’m at it, I figure I might as well upgrade Movable Type as well (the new release actually has at least one new feature I want to take advantage of).
All of which is to say that the blog might be acting a little funny tonight, so if you have some trouble commenting or the page looks all banged up, it’s probably because I’m working on it. See you on the other side.
Update: Upgrade is complete. No problems encountered. Yet. I’m going to fiddle around with pagination and maybe some comment system stuff if I have time. Also, I removed Steven’s comment and my response from the previous entry, since they didn’t really fit with the whole slasher movie topic of the post. Thanks again to Steven for finding the issue and taking the time to alert me.
Again Update: So you know how at the bottom of the page, I have a link to read “Older Posts” which will take you to the next 8 posts after the ones on the homepage? Up until now, I had to use multiple index templates with hard-coded navigation between the index templates. This sorta approximated the functionality that’s common on, er, most other blogs at this point (I could have converted to dynamic publishing, but not without massively changing the linking structure of the site). This is dreadfully inefficient and it doesn’t scale very well – it only went for two extra pages. Anyway, MT 4.3 has support for pagination via built-in search functionality, so now you can just keep reading (apparently, there are a few hundred pages to read through). The resulting pages could use some work, but it’s probably fine for now.