Starting Over

A friend once listed to me the top ten list of the most difficult challenges that a person can face in their lifetime.  The end of a long term relationship, changing homes, changing jobs, the death of a loved one were all on the list.  The destruction of 4 years worth of a website was not on the list.  It should be.

Someone from a US based domain hacked my previous threelayercake website on 7 May.  The infection in the joomla files was so widespread, I had to scrap it and start over.  Hopefully, I will have the chance to bring all of the old content to archive it here, but I took the opportunity to switch over to WordPress using a free template (for the time being) until I can get the hang of the control panel and figure out how this all works.

I realize I’m getting old because just the thought of starting over and learning all this after five years of doing the Joomla route is not exciting.  So hopefully within the next couple of days I’ll be able to repost my last post from the old site or something similar…and get started.

Don’t ask “You don’t have back ups?” Because I kind of do, but it’s complicated…and it’s kind of why you should really despise hackers and all those people out there who are confickering their way into your lives and your pockets without you knowing.  Because it’s a rat race that you can’t really win.  You can only hope that wherever you are, you limit your vulnerability as much as possible.  This may ultimately include having some sort of insurance on your “stuff”, like your bank account and other things of this nature which are the ultimate goal of these hackers.  It’s so much more of a threat than Y2K, but without all the stockpiling of water and meals-ready-to-eat.

Anyway, bear with me as I learn.  I hope the new site will be exactly the aesthetic I was looking for, with a greater emphasis on photography.  And as I work to get it all into place, I am also working on my LiveBooks portfolio site.  So…sometime, somewhere, I’ll be up and running.  Watch this space.

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