Shanghai Yummy

Well, after a rather trying three weeks without my main server, the machine is back. Didn't really hear anyone complaining, so I'm guessing that my earlier assessment that only five people read this thing is probably right...

However, it was quite annoying having to re-reoute my e-mail, and even more frustrating to lose the website for my high school class' ten-year Reunion. April is kind of a critical month, and we pretty much lost all of it, so it's going to be a gargantuan effort in the next two weeks to get in touch with a long list of people who haven't responded yet. This would have been monumentally easier with a fully operational website.

The reason the machine was down was because we got hacked. Now, I happen to be one of the (I think very few) people who don't automatically think hackers are criminals or bad people. In fact, I think some hackers are a sort of modern day Robin Hood. Some. But when someone hacks a machine like ours, it's like stealing from a bunch of kids who are trying to save up to send a donation to Save the Whales. Pretty low, people. Pretty low. This machine is run by myself with a bunch of friends. We're not some huge corporate entity that has billions of dollars and the time and resources to deal with this sort of thing. That's one of the reasons why the machine was down for so long as a result of this attack. We pool our resources, in terms of money, time, and talent, to give each other a place to write about stuff that's going on, keep in touch with each other, and stay connected. That's it... we're not in this for profit or conquest or loot. So yeah, I'm pretty disappointed that some element of humanity chose to expend effort in making our lives difficult.

Anyhow. I do plan to make some changes to this thing. I know I've been saying that for a while now, but this time I sort of have a plan. Look for this in the coming weeks. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for reading my drivel.

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