Nearly Stepped In It
notes from my journey
And... We're back...

Sorry about the technical difficulties for the last week, but it turns out my site was shut down due to SPAM!! Not lack of payment or some other screw-up on my part as most of you assumed, thank you very much. Turns out it didn't even have anything to do with James or Niall. Thanks to Erika Maffetore -- who, with the help of her husband and my best friend, Jason, is going to be having a baby next February!! -- it's all straightened out... for now anyway.

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shouted from the mountaintop by marc
July 27, 2005 9:04 AM | tell me (324) | show comments...

Hi all - Erika here. Marc's hosted under our account.

Sorry for the past few days - the site was under an incredible attack from the mean spam people. It almost took down the server, so our hosting company shut the site down. I just managed to get in and delete almost 6000 (!!!!) spam comments.

As a result, I've needed to close comments on all posts older than 15 days. I'm sorry about that, but the spammers seem to go for old posts. Hopefully this will prevent another shutdown - though I'm thinking I should have left the links to midgetmotorsports.com. It seemed right up Marc's alley. ;-)

shouted from the mountaintop by jason
July 26, 2005 11:49 AM | tell me (0) | show comments...

The Great Wall-mart

"Just give him 10 yuan to leave us alone!"

There's an aussie family heading down the path looking very disgruntled. The two kids are out front, a boy and girl about 13 and 15. They seem to be in a hurry. Mom and dad aren't far behind. Dad is yelling at mom. Son is yelling at sis who's yelling at dad. They're all incredibly annoyed. Then i see why.

"You buy posscahd...t-shuht?"

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shouted from the mountaintop by marc
July 11, 2005 6:44 AM | tell me (886) | show comments...