After being alerted to a lot of spam links hidden in my posts, I took action, including upgrading my Word Press software to version 2.5. Unfortunately, it turned out the spam hackers, using SQL injection to gain access to my blog’s database, had left it utterly, in the words of the Dreamhost support team, “hosed.” So I had to rebuild my database too. But now, hopefully, everything is working better, and the WordPress update has closed off the SQL injection vulnerability.