2.10.06: Tubthumping ‹ Blog « Without-Feathers.com

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore

Tubthumping

February 10, 2006

A mere two days after I first read about header injections and thought, “Yeah, that sounds bad; I’ll update my mail forms… eventually,” I woke up to find my inbox, normally so clean and tidy, filled to the brim with spam… all from the feedback form in my Writing section. And it doesn’t help that my webhost was just acquired by a company that apparently has some very strict views on spam. Sigh. Fortunately, I managed to muddle my way through the necessary form-tweaking, so things should be back to normal now. Well… as normal as things ever are around here, anyway.

If you’ve sent me e-mail or visited my site in the past couple of weeks, you’re probably wondering where the hell I’ve been (and, if you’re an e-mailer, why the hell I haven’t gotten back to you). Truth be told, I needed a break from the online world. In the past two months, I’ve been cyberstalked, had my mail forms hacked (see above), dealt with countless e-mail/FTP issues, and generally spent more time on the not-so-fun aspects of web site ownership. I’m probably the most laid-back person you’ll ever meet, but even I have my limits—and when merely sitting down at the computer brings on the first signs of a migraine, I know I need some time off. So I done took me a little two-week vacation, and now I’m back and raring to go. (And if you’ve sent me e-mail in the past few weeks, I’d like to publicly thank you. I may not be able to reply to all of it in a timely fashion, but I do appreciate your thoughts.)

I want to get this uploaded before tonight’s showing of Bleak House (great series, highly recommended), so I’ll leave it at that for now. As always, your feedback is valued; use the e-mail form below to send me questions or comments. (And while you’re at it, ask for a password and username—there might be a few password-protected entries in the future…)