From time to time, MM.com will get over 100+ hits a day.  Consistently, I’ll have around 50-60, and I know this because I check my statcounter daily.  It tells me exactly who has been on my site (complete with IP address), when they got there, what pages they looked at and how long they perused the ferocity that is MM.com.

About two weeks ago, I noticed I had over 200 hits by 9am.  I was ecstatic!  I’d gone viral.  Little did I know how ironic that statement was.  Turns out 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 all things Michael Mackie?

Now, I enjoy all my dear readers … for the most part.  But the hits kept coming fast and furious, and from all over the world.  Hello, Tanzania.  Hello, Bora Bora.  Hello, Malta, Romania and Argentina.  And whoever the hacker is/was … he/she had my website attached to the most random, quirky things.  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.

The whole thing has been rather annoying.  During the initial stages of the attack, my website was getting so many hits it went down.  Normally, I’d be overjoyed.  But 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.)

So here’s to you, my little hacker, you got me.  It could have been worse, I suppose.  But at least I know you’ve got a sense of humor, you sick puppy.