As I’m sure thousands have noticed, I haven’t been exactly active on my website recently. So imagine my horror when I got a note from my host provider saying it looked like my blog had been hacked. This was puzzling – what did she mean it “looked like” I got hacked? Was there some doubt? Had a tasteless infomercial been subtly slipped in amongst my insightful and witty posts?

So I checked, and yes it DID appear as though I’d been hacked – every single word I’d written had been replaced with C...