Slaw RSS Feed Problem Fixed

Turns out the fault was not in our stars but in ourselves: we’d been hacked. We have now removed the offending code and believe that our feeds, whether direct from Slaw or via Feedburner, should be free of pollution. Please let us know if we are mistaken in any respect.

It is likely that within the next few days Slaw will upgrade the version of WordPress it uses to the latest version, as part of our efforts to frustrate hackers. Readers should not notice any change, but the site may be down for an hour or so. We will post a message when the upgrade is about to occur.

Of course, to solve one problem is sometimes to create another: in fixing this we have messed up the way in which accented characters are represented, rendering most French as gibberish — although we have made our most recent post in French work properly. We’re now working to fix this embarrassment, so please bear with us.