Well, a significant amount of time has passed since I last posted to my blog. The primary reason for this has been lack of time over the past few months. As my life got very busy, I stopped posting entries. Secondly, my blog was hacked.
That’s right. Hacked. Someone came onto my website and replaced everything with an image. Wonderful.
From this, I learned a few lessons.
1. Keep your blog platform up to date
I did not. At least not consistently. Blog vulnerabilities are open windows to hackers and I left mine open to attack by not updating. A security vulnerability was announced and I was off in la-la land, not updating my blog and someone hacked it. My own fault. Although I do loathe hackers.
2. Backup your content
While I thought my hosting service was doing this for me automatically, turns out that I had not set it up. Shocker. I lost everything. Years worth of entries. Who’s to blame? I am!
3. Check your site often, and update.
So, I was a moron. I’ve taken my lumps and now the blog is back up and running. Hopefully permanently this time. The design is new, the content is new, the problems are new. But one thing is for sure, I’ll be checking my blog (and hopefully updating) far more often than in the past to make sure that something like this doesn’t happen again in the future!
Thanks for your patience! I’m still having a few issues with the site design, primarily around the implementation of the “Disqus” platform for comments, but everything seems to be working for the most part. Let me know if you find any glitches on the site! Glad to have you back! Comments are always welcome. There will be some ongoing modifications to the site in the next few weeks as I get used to the theme, and implement some of my own elements into it!
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