http://slyoyster.com

Not sure why I get sucked into updating my website right away, when I know there will always be problems. But the new OS always looks so shiny and new. Anyway, there are lots of bugs and so I’m going to be spending the day doing what I should have done on the weekend and fix everything. We’ll be back tonight and fingers crossed tomorrow with great internet content!

And to think we had a great slew of stories lined up!

So someone hijacked the site at some point over the last week.  You’ll notice, despite our best efforts to delete, that there was a distinct rise in comment spam feverishly proclaiming their love for Chirs Brown.  Seriously.  Something like 30 0r 40 comments were posted a day on Chris Brown and Rihanna and that was just what was getting through.

And so, combined with an increase in readership and me not paying attention to back end related issue, our webhost shut us down.  And didn’t really help us get back up and running until I told them I would fix the issue late last night.

Hopefully, I’ve deleted all the malicious code, but you never know.  There are some truly awful wanktastic fucktards out there looking to ruin just about anything.  So, I’ll be monitoring the amount of love Chris Brown gets over the next several days and see whats what.

So what did I miss over the last day and a half?  Seems like an eternity.

Had more site problems last night and the only thing I could do was reinstall the most recent back up copy of the database.  Which unfortunately, was from Dec. 18.  So I just lost essentially a month and a half of posts.  I guess it’s time to start regularly backup the database if I’m going to continue to have problems or think I will anyways.

This is so lame.  Sometimes I hate myself.  Over the weekend I’ll try to republish some of the lost posts, well probably the ones that were linked to anyways, etc.  So amatuerish.

update: in the process of adding the lost posts and it’s getting very tedious.  I might just be picking and choosing certain ones, a “best of” if you will, to repost.  There’s a lot that isn’t necessary at this point.

update #2: Took about 2.5 hours to reload 35 or so posts.  Looking at the total amount lost for January (average of 5 per day) and I could be here all night and tomorrow uploading.  So now I’m definitely picking and choosing, especially posts that were linked to, received comments or had higher traffic.  Expect lots of posts with music videos and movie trailers to be gone.  It’s worth my time and yet it isn’t in many ways.

update #3: At this point I’ve lost interest in reupping ever post from January.  I’m going to handpick a few and have that be that.  I’ve got most of the ones I want back up, but at this point, there is no sense looking back.  I should be looking forward and plug away.