The NoCCrit Blog got hacked, somehow, and it looks like everything’s been trashed. I’m working on fixing it. Sorry….
Update 12:44PM PST: I’ve been able to recover the old data… into an Excel spreadsheet. There are over 1000 posts plus innumerable comments. Someone could probably write a script moving the old posts over to the rebuilt site, but I’m not that someone these days. I’ll repost the most recent half dozen or so. I’ll try to turn off the auto-notify feed, but I apologize in advance if you get a flood of notification.
Update 1:10PM PST: If you subscribed to this blog via RSS, I think you need to resubscribe to keep the posts coming. (Re backups: Yes, I had one. No, I didn’t spot the hacking before I took the most recent snapshot, so the backup was also corrupted. I normally keep multiple backups, but I didn’t do that with the blog. That was dumb on my part.)
Also, the new URL is http://NoCCrit.com/Steveblog. Note the uppercase S, though /steveblog now automatically transfers you to Steveblog. The idea that lowercase and uppercase are different is an old Unix it’s-microscopically-faster quirk that Linus Torvalds apparently decided to replicate. The blog is hosted on a Linux server, so Steveblog isn’t steveblog. Luckily, DARPA and the folks who started the Internet (wasn’t that Al Gore?) realized that was a silly quirk that favored computers over humans, so domain addresses ignore caps; NoCCrit.com = noccrit.com = NOCCRIT.COM and so on. (Okay, Al Gore never actually said anything like “I invented the Internet,” but it’s a great urban legend!)
