Longer Day
Learned
Today I learned to clean up after myself... again. I got an email around noon that my host (Site5) had found my account to be compromised and somebody serving a phishing site off of it. I went in, started looking around and found a bunch of random folders that had been popped in - no idea how. I'm still not completely sure how they did it... I know now that my file permissions were all screwed up, making a lot of things world readable that never should have been.
I spent the better part of this evening locking everything down and especially cleaning up nasty old code from when I first started developing sites. I couldn't believe some of the junk that was in there. I think I lost a few things - but nothign that shouldn't be sitting on one of the computers or hard drives around the house.
Next, I get to do a complete code review of everything that's left to see if I can find the hole where someone tunneled in... hopefully I closed it accidentally already.
Watched
Then I watched this and it made me feel like my "problems" and worries are insignificant and we should all just quit are jobs and go live in the mountains and deserts.
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Listened
Today I listened to the excellent David Lynch/Sparklehorse/Danger Mouse album Dark Night of the Soul that features a whole slew of my favorite artists (Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Frank Black of the pixies, and more). NPR is streaming the whole thing here [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104129585]
And an article on Gizmodo about Danger Mouse's plans to ship the album with art and a blank cd+r (no music). Awesome.
