This is weird. I never thought I’d have to write a new first post on my personal website…ever. ‘Why would it ever go anywhere,’ I thought. WordPress hackers. That was something that I hadn’t factored. I hadn’t thought about the need to scam people for Ugg boots. Because of that, my old site is gone. I looked at the cost/benefit of working my way through the code to identify the malicious lines and decided that I was better off just nuking the entire thing and starting from scratch.

For me, th...