If you happened upon my site earlier this evening you may have noticed that nothing was here.

Long story short: Somehow, someone got the login information to my hosting account and uploaded some scripts to my site and sent a bunch of spam email, and my web host suspended my site to stop it.

The good news: I got access to my site back within an hour or so.

The bad news: My account had to be “re-provisioned,” which means wiped clean. For security reasons the host couldn’t restore any of the files nor give me a backup. I lost all my files, my email accounts and saved email… everything.

The good news: I had backed up my Wordpress database yesterday so the main part of this site was (mostly) restored right away.

The bad news: I haven’t backed up anything else on my site for about six months.

The bad news: There will be dead links and images around here for a while while I finish getting things back on track. I don’t have any videos uploaded — I think I’ll store most of the older ones on my .mac MobileMe disk and link to them. Which means I need to go through all my archives and change the links to the videos. Unless some htaccess magic will do it … There’s some little minor layout issues that will bug me for a while until I figure them out. But I’m picky and am sure nobody else will notice.

Ugh. Shitty end to a shitty day. I didn’t even have any liquor in the house…

Got the LJCrosspost plugin working again. Apparently when I changed some code to get it to work with the latest version of WP I deleted a critical line of code that shouldn’t have been deleted. Whoops.

I installed Wordpress a few days ago, and have been slowing switching everything over from my old blogging engine (Movable Type). I believe that I have enough of it completed, so I’ve decided to turn the new stuff “live.” All the old permalinks from my MT install should be the same as the imported posts in Wordpress — though I’m sure I missed a few here and there. If anyone notices a dead permalink, please contact me with the old link and I’ll fix it right up.

One nifty plugin I’ve found is that I can choose to crosspost entries over on my Livejournal. I guess this pretty much makes kellybellydtnet (the Livejournal syndicated account of my website) obsolete, since everything will just show up in my normal Livejournal anyway, and anyone that has friended both will get duplicate entries. So if you’re reading this on Livejournal, feel free to remove that journal from your friends list.

These new developments also mean that I’m going to be doing all (or the majority of) my blogging on my website, versus my LJ, as I have been doing the past few years. But then again, it’ll be blogged over on my LJ as well, so I guess I’m still using it. Or something.

Some wonkiness may arise the next week or so as I work the bugs out. I apologize in advance for any annoyance I may cause.

Thanks and :-*s to Justin for the new video intro and outro (and if you look at the top of the page, for the new header image).

I now have an iMovie plugin that allows me to overlay images on my movies. I might be playing around with it to “watermark” my videos; opinions are welcome.