Yes, I was hacked. Why people target me, I will never know. Especially since all it does is shut my site down, therefore not advertising whatever site or software or WHATEVER they intended to force upon unsuspecting visitors. Luckily this last one was only up for about two hours by my calculations (sorry guys, we went out to dinner for my sister's birthday). If you were unlucky enough to have visited my site during that time you would have ended up with a nasty virus-type program installed on your computer that claimed to be a virus-scan program that has detected multiple viruses on your computer and to clean your hard drive (and make your computer USABLE again) you must activate the software (i.e. PAY MONEY). It was a nightmare, and the only way to fix my computer was to do a system restore. This time Windows 7 really WAS my idea! How many people out there do you think actually have a current system restore point available? Not me, I can tell you that. If it wasn't for Windows 7, you would have found me in tears by the end of the night trying to get this f---ing software off my computer. So after a complete restore of all of my 15+ websites, and some added (and newly discovered) security measures, I can finally relax. Back to business as usual. If you'd like to know the security measures I've taken, ask me in about a month and I'll let you know if they worked or not...until then, I'd rather not share. I'd hate to be the reason your site got hacked o_O

In the meantime, I discovered some awesome sites you might enjoy. One has FREE HI-DEF desktop wallpapers: desktopwallpaper-s.com. These wallpapers are so cool, I wish I had an HOURLY, ROTATING, desktop wallpaper option so I could actually use them all. It was very hard to choose.

Second, and I've actually known about this site for some time but haven't actually used it is iconfinder.com. I love the creative icons as opposed to the generic icons for social networking sites, and iconfinder.com has some very creative designs. I just wish I could find a way to use them here.

Next up, the QR Code Generator at appspot.com. If you're new to Android and aren't a techie, or if you, like everyone else I know, have an iPhone, then you're probably not aware of the totally awesome (don't ask me why) feature of Android phones: the bar code scanner. Yes, with the bar code scanner you can scan the bar code on ANYTHING and share or catalog or even search for the best price of ANY item with a 2D or 3D bar code. You can also create your own 2D bar code with your contact info (for your company website), your Wi-Fi Network so you can share settings between devices instead of typing it in every time, you can share apps, URLs, etc. just by going to appspot.com, plugging in your info, saving the new bar code graphic and emailing it, posting it on your site, saving it on your phone so your friend can scan it...you can even share THIS site by clicking the link at the top right of the page which will take you to a bar code you can scan with your Android enabled phone, then share it or save it or WHATEVER. It's very cool, and you'll see more and more websites having one of these in their "Contact Us" page. We don't yet but it's not because I hadn't thought of it...

Lots more to list, but I'll have to pick this up later. Enjoy!

Wow, I signed up for eBates.com (free), clicked on Dell.com, purchased a new battery for my laptop from Dell.com, and now I'm getting $6.24 back! ZERO effort and I'm getting CASH back. Totally awesome! And I buy EVERYTHING online (...except groceries). Click the eBates.com link above, register, make an online purchase at any one of their stores (from Overstock.com, to Restaurant.com, Nordstrom.com, Folica.com, Drugstore.com and SO MANY MORE) and you and I BOTH get $5.00. Then refer YOUR friends and you and your friend each get another $5.00! You don't even have to register to see the stores they work with, they don't collect any personal or payment information, just your name, email, and a place to mail your refund check! Only someone who doesn't shop online EVER wouldn't benifit from this. Happy shopping!

Everyone should watch this video about once a day ...

My fear of Object Oriented Programming is gone, but my fear of complex arrays has only just begun...

Try this: for one day, after you wake up in the morning and brush your teeth, don't eat, drink, chew gum, mints, anything. All you can have is water, pure, unflavored, unsparkled water all day, at least 16 hours. Now try it Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 72 straight hours, every week. This is my life. At least for now it is. Wednesday is questionable, as I start to lose control over the desire for something with flavor, something crunchy. I usually end up with Goldfish (800 cals). Yeah, okay, I'm not doing well. I told my doctor today that I don't have the willpower for an eating disorder...not that I didn't want to have one. At least it wasn't all a lie. I have to lose weight though, and quick. The eating disordered side isn't convinced I can lose weight this way...not eating for three days. Three days isn't enough. SIX days isn't enough. The rational side knows I have to eat to keep my Adderall which I need to keep functioning like a normal human being (and HELLO, not eating for three days?? Yeah, I'll lose weight). But I can't SEE, in the mirror, a difference from a month ago because I don't have anything to compare to, except my current reflection in the mirror, which is identical to how it looked an hour ago. "Gradual" weight loss to the eating disordered side is NO weight loss. And as long as I'm [too many] sizes away from zero, NO weight loss is all I see. I can't imagine ever being able to "recover". I mean, how do you just ACCEPT the awfulness you see and feel? You can throw away the scale, but clothing doesn't come without a size on it. A number, always too high. And the world is filled with thinner people, there's always someone thinner. How do you see that and not notice your own "excess"?? "They're allowed to be thin, but not me?" So my idea of "thin" isn't your idea of thin, but I just don't know how you can accept it, especially when food is a fear AND an addiction. Eat, but not too much. Diet, but not too much. Not praised for staying "clean & sober", but punished...