With the podcast wrapping up, this was, of course, the perfect time for my blog credentials get compromised. The site was down for about a day. Luckily the good folks at Dreamhost (my hosting provider for forever) run a tight ship with good support and responsibly managed backups.

It took some to discover that the trouble was the result of compromise, but I was back a couple of hours after I reported the trouble.

It was enough of a scare to push me to batten down the blog hatches. Online Mike is kind of lazy, so some of the update maintenance falls behind. I spent some time last night cleaning up and found 8,000+ blog posts, all on January 3rd, for poker and casino spam. It was a good feeling.

WordPress does a fine job at many things, but bulk post deletion is not one of them. Not at that volume, anyway. It took about an hour to delete those spam posts, 20 at a time.

My carpal tunnels are disappointed in me this morning.