I woke up grouchy today it was (and is) still hot.. I’d stayed up late working and hadn’t gotten everything done.. and had a ton of stuff pending for today. to make matters worse I woke to an email from the hosting site that hosts this blog and http://samstones.org saying that my site had been hacked

heres what you saw when you ent either to http://johncohn.org or http://samstones.org

I got on the phoen wiht the tech from my hosting company and started griping at him (politely) about the way this all came down.. THey didn’t call me or anything.. just shut down the site. He explained that in the case of an infection like this, they have little chois… He patianly helpde me remove the offending files from my wordpress install. I was still grumbling…

He commented that the site was organized funny from a code level.. I explained that I had done most of it in the weeks and months after Sam died.. and that was when I was still leanring PHP. I explained tha a grieving dad writes strange code..

he paused for a moment….

 

hten he told me that his wife had died 5 years before.. In a quiet voice he told his wife’s  story

i told him  about Sam.. ..

 

and we talked about the lessons from loss.. and how easy it was to forget them momentarily like when you let something like a hacked web site ruin your day…   we had a good laugh.. a strange laugh maybe.. about that..

We talked for a while.. then realized we both had to roll back to our jobs.. we switched back to customer /client and said good bye…

Sams’ site was back up in a few minutes..

 

and so were my spirits..

 

thanks stratlogic guy !

nite all, ntite sam

-me