Some more diligent readers might have seen a few… odd posts in the last couple of days. These were “links for…” posts, the sort created automatically by del.icio.us every night at 2am when it tries to auto-post the things I’ve bookmarked during the day.

Turns out that, for reasons unclear at present — but which you may want to take the time to explore if you use WordPress and post remotely via the XML-RPC interface — something got broked.

Not sure what, but MarsEdit (the desktop blogging client I use to compose most of my posts) and del.icio.us and TextMate all started complaining suddenly. Maybe some earlier post I created had a showstopping character or unclosed tag; maybe some script kiddie or bot had poked the interface often enough to cause some kind of blockage. In any case, I see no damage at present, now that I’ve upgraded from WordPress 2.1.x to 2.3.1.

But there could have been, I’m guessing.

So (a) back up your blog datatbase, and (b) upgrade your blog software if you haven’t done that recently.