The Big DumpTruck

Some hackers messed up my hosting company pretty good. As a result of their shenanigans, Google removed me from their listings. So now, even if you search for this site, you will not see any results from it. I have applied for faster reinstatement (they suspend the site for 30 days but if you fix the issue they'll put you back faster).

I don't have exact numbers in front of me on how much of my traffic comes from Google, but I know it's quite a bit. My numbers dropped into the toilet anyway, what with my sporadic updating schedule, Blogrolling biting the wax tadpole (oh, sure, once a month they tell us they're almost ready to relaunch. You know, I once paid for their gold account service. I'm just saying) it's all melted away. I think the problem is that I don't pay you guys enough to stop by on a more regular basis. I'll have to work out the compensation table "friends of the dump". I'm sure it will be enough for you to quit your jobs. Or something. What if I promise you an original work of art? Or some of my dryer lint? We'll work it out.

Labels: angry, traffic, websites

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, there was some kind of massive (nationwide) outage that impacted NESN and ESPN2 and therefore people who got up to start their day with a cup of coffee and the season opener could not actually see it on television.

We were among those who had to resort to listening to AM radio inside the house. Not cool, DirecTV, not cool.

Granted, we were already up at 6am, but I'm betting there were a LOT of people who set the alarm just that much earlier.

At least we won it, 10 innings later (not an easy win, and not a pretty one, but a win nonetheless).

Labels: angry, Red_Sox, television