A while back, in this same bit of server space, I had my own little bulletin board. Never did I have dreams of becoming the next Tom or Craig, but I figured it was a good way of organizing all the crap I had wanted to post to the web, and it allowed friends and fans to log in and poke around. I was using phpBB, of which I am still a big fan even though…
I modded the hell out of my board. It had all sorts of neat little tricks up its sleeves. My interest in actually posting to the board waxed and waned, usually with less frequency than the moon (unlike this blog, which I’m sure I’ll faithfully post to every day!). During a lull in my posting habits, a friend alerted me to the fact that my site had been hacked. Some script kiddie found a way to destroy my site and post his own name onto it.
This really wouldn’t have been such a bad thing, had he not totally toasted my database. About the only thing I was able to recover were the images I had stored in my photo album. Unfortunately, they lost all of their meta-data and had extremely long, random names to them. I still haven’t gotten around to sorting those out again. It was a sad day, indeed. For the first time in years I felt like strangling an adolescent. Hey kid, if you were a real hacker you’d go after some major corporate or government site, not my random rantings and chats with my girlfriend.
So I scrapped the whole thing. I don’t even want to bother with trying to figure out what went wrong where and applying patches and figuring out how to get things back to the way they were. For a while I floundered trying to figure out exactly what to do with my webspace. I couldn’t let it stand blank forever. I had a few dim sparks of genius of cool new designs that I could do, but when I realized how much work I’d have to do for any of them I scrapped those too. I work on websites all day long. It’s my job. The last thing I want to do in my spare time is look at code. Especially when all I want to do is type something as silly as this or put up a new photo or link. So why reinvent the wheel?
Honestly, I don’t like blogs. I mean, I’ve read some good ones and I’ve found some rather good stuff floating around inside of them, but for the most part, this whole blog movement on the web can go f’ itself in the a’ for all I care. But now, here I am with my own blog. What ever is the world coming to? It works for now though. I’ll run with it until the next big fad comes looming over the horizon. Maybe I’ll end up pouring my heart out to other Wal-Mart Hubsters, I mean, that’s what all the cool kids are doing nowadays, right? I just hope my parents approve my site… (and you thought myspace was bad)
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