Let’s get this started !

Please bear with me, there will be news soon, I don’t plan on going AWOL!!!

Famous last words from nearly 2 years ago.

I started this blog a few years ago, making mundane observations, releasing some software, and generally helping people out. I had invested a lot of my time on this website, I had great plans and I had great ambitions.

Then the ’storm’ broke out.

I was getting comment SPAM by the thousands every day [apart from pingback SPAM and trackback SPAM]. I was getting email SPAM by the hundred every day. I tried to port the website across to Drupal [still available on beta.unsignedbyte.com]. The website got hacked into a few times [Thank you very much]. My hosting account got hacked into once [Thank you very much]. My hosting provider had no clue [Thank you very much]. I tried to port the site across to Joomla. My laptop harddisk went to heaven, it took a recovery service 1 week to give me a dump of raw text files. I was getting overloaded at work. A senior colleague quit and dropped a huge burden on my shoulders and I have been cleaning up his mess ever since.

Some enterprising souls tracked me down from other sites [very good forensic work, I must say], and sent me a few emails at a personal email address and I replied back to them. I shared with them the new beta release of the Send Later [SL8TR] extension [which I was about to finish up on long time ago]. They helped me with some debug logs and I have made some improvements since then.

Then I decided to get my act back together. I have much better control over my webserver now [I can do a 'sudo halt' :-)]. I have reinstalled Wordpress from scratch, enabled Akismet and reCaptcha [fingers crossed]. I have moved over all the data from the old site, kept the links as is. I like this. I have gone with a clean look adapted from the ‘librio’ theme [I added a category menu to it]. I like this much better.

Dare I say it ?

I am back !! I am back with a plan.

As of a few minutes ago, I have got my email working and I have got the downloads working.. I still have a few things to do before I release the new version of Send Later [SL8TR]. My checklist includes testing on Windows and repacking the RDF file for automatic update. But first some shut eye.

Regards

Karthik

PS1: I have left the comments locked up in previous posts, hope you don’t mind.

PS2: You can reach me on <myfirstname>@<thissitename> if you feel like emailing me.

PS3: My wife got me a PS3 [The only silver lining around the dark clouds of the past 2 years]. So I will be blogging a bit about my games soon.