The day started quick today when I was notified that my recipe wiki site, Wikipes, was defaced by someone. You can see a screenshot of the defacing here. Whoever did it, didn’t do much damage, just changed one file, and renamed another. I backup the site often, so I just restored the two files to the original, and that was it.

I have no enemies online these days, so I can only assume it was a random attack from a bored script kiddy trying to feel powerful or something. In any event, I emailed our host, and told them what happened, and see if they can take care of the situation to ensure it doesn’t happen again. I have faith that they will come through, as they’ve been nothing but superb with customer support since I’ve been with them.

Look, if you’re bored, there are a number of things you can do besides try to ruin someone’s day, or even trash their work. Here are some suggestions:

• Play a game on the Xbox
• Go to a sporting event
• Adopt a homeless pet
• Beat up worthless equipments with a baseball bat
• Learn how to design a website properly
• Go bonkers with a fistful of cash at your favorite store

Update: Figured out how the little punk did it, and he did use a simple script to deface the site. Apparently he’s a dumb one, it was a script pre-written, not even his own work. Probably some 16-year old punk whose parents neglects him so he deface sites to feel important. Come on parents, teach your kids to respect others!

You may have noticed the site was down for the last ~24 hours. That is because I changed the site to my favorite host, Dreamhost. I was previously using 1&1, but it has been unstable lately, and even though I was on a 3 years free professional hosting package due to a promotional event they held a couple years ago, it wasn’t that professional. For one, their customer service is nowhere near as exceptional as Dreamhost’s, and their control panel is nowhere near as superb as Dreamhost’s.

So now you can go back to either 1) stalking me if you’re an ex-girlfriend or 2) try to figure me out if you’re not the previous choice. Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

Also, you’ll notice that the Photos page now points to Flickr, which I’ll be using to store my photos at. Why? Even though I love the script I was using before, I am enjoying the community aspect of Flickr, and the various features used over there.

Got an interesting email today, supposedly from the President of the GreenZap company. I say supposedly because it links to a greenzap.net domain, which I thought was odd. However, virus scan shows it as negative, and there’s no spyware/trojans in it either. The link is to a .pdf document that has details about the company, the people behind it, and how they intend to reward people with $25 for signing up.

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Why do we stoop so low? Why are we even communicating with machines. Haven’t you watched the Matrix? Don’t you know that one day they will rule over us, and here we are, talking to them, giving them our most intimate secrets, and making them snicker at our foolishness.

I have a hard time talking into answering machines, I really hate speaking in a dead silence, knowing my voice is going to be recorded, and it will sound different when someone plays it back to see what I had to say. What if I messed up and didn’t say what I wanted to really say? Can I go in and delete the recording and start over? What if I suddenly develop Tourette’s Syndrome while talking to an answering machine?

Now we have a browser, Opera, that allows you to give it commands. Want to open a new website? Give it the open new page command. Oddly, I was told it won’t recognize female voice commands. When robots rule the world, women would be seeked as freedom fighters because robots wouldn’t be able to understand them, and then men would look at the robots, and go, “Uh huh, now you know what we have to put up with.”

Stop talking to machines, people! Where’s your sense of dignity and pride!? Don’t give the evil robots any more leverage than they already got. We must retain our superiority over them and our pride. The next time a machine wants you to talk to it, give it the silent treatment. Revolt! Stand up for what is your’s!