It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything on MM.com.  That’s because a pesky lil’ hacker infiltrated my site … along with several others on the same server.  Must be something in the water … as the site I write for — MoxieQ.com — recently went down in a blaze of glory too.

Normally, it’s a quick fix, but this time the hacker got creative.  He re-linked my page to a bunch of nasty porn sites.  My friends were appalled and aghast … but only because it was lesbian porn.  (Not that there’s anything wrong with that … but obviously not my first choice in porn.  And likely the LAST thing you’d expect to see when linking to my website.  Ahem.)

My web guy is always on top of things, ensuring that my website is rarely compromised.  But even this one had him stumped.  He’d fix it … the virus would return.  Fix it again … and the glitch would magically reappear.  I figured something was up when traffic plummeted.

Hackers are a zany group of individuals.  A few years ago, some rogue hacker had attached my little website to every single search engine under the sun.  I’m still not quite sure what happened, but apparently if you went to Yahoo for instance and typed in something obscure like “killer whale attack” or “planting chrysanthemums”, my website would pop up.  You’d click on said link and it would say PAGE NOT FOUND.

Well, duh.

When have I ever been an expert on anything other than celebrities and/or pop culture?  Anyone who knows me knows I’m not even REMOTELY interested in professional boxing or rap music.  Yet, those were the hits I was getting.  When all was said and done, MM.com was attached to more than fifteen different topics on a variety of different search engines.  When you get 800 hits on something like “death by shoelaces”, you have to wonder who is looking this sort of thing up?  (I’ll tell you, they’re all in Alabama.)

Fortunately, MM.com is back up to full speed.  And not a minute too soon.  I’ve missed my adoring public … albeit not as much as my adoring pubic has missed me, I hope.