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.