It’s tough being a blogger sometimes

First of all, I’d like to apologize for being offline so much yesterday. As it turns out my server caught some malware lodged within my domain. What I’m trying to figure out is how it got there but fortunately there seems to be no harm done thus far. I deleted the directory in question since it was a “spare” directory that I didn’t know I had until the server company told me where the malware was hiding.

I guess the Russians don’t like my site because I’m all in favor of capitalism, not criminalism. I had a lot of fun last night because all sorts of bells and whistles went off on my laptop after I opened the malware file; luckily my firewall and anti-virus have apparently saved me from a Windows lookalike site that supposedly would clean up these viruses (betcha they would have placed those nasty viruses right on here.) I did another virus scan last night just to make sure.

It got me to thinking a little bit though. Would it not be out of the realm of possibility for a left-wing extremist to attack conservative blogs similarly? (I suppose the reverse could be true as well, but I like to think we on the right play by the rules.) It’s a sign of the times about the nastiness of political discourse that such a thing could be considered.

However, it’s not necessarily even a question between left and right – it could be two bloggers who just plain don’t like each other. I can see a pair in my small community doing this, and I bet readers can think of similar Hatfield vs. McCoy type feuds wherever they read this post.

It was a bummer that I lost so much time yesterday offline. I’m not going to wax ecstatic about my readership because it wasn’t a record week but it’s been better than most lately. Losing that time almost cost me a triple-digit day in readership. Yeah, that pales in comparison to some sites but I don’t put a lot of filler in mine and it takes me plenty of time to compile one good post.

However, while I may be complaining to some extent I’m not losing sight of the big picture. While you’re reading this the chances are great that I’m actually out enjoying a nice Delmarva summer day (since I wrote this last night). I enjoy writing but there’s also work to do and in my case someone special to do things with, so don’t look for me to spend 16 hours a day (or even more than a couple) working on my site. While it may cost me a large number of readers I don’t feel like it’s time wasted either.

It’s just something to think over on this Saturday morning. I’m thinking I’ll have some Sunday evening reading since my “blog ideas” folder had plenty of that to go with the half-dozen videos I found interesting, so you can look forward to that.

Author: Michael

It's me from my laptop computer.

One thought on “It’s tough being a blogger sometimes”

  1. Excellent post

    I for one really wish that at least two of our local bloggers could just get along. Character attacks only weaken the validity of one bloggers argument.

    It is as I have told some on this blog, our goals are so closely aligned in many ways, divided we fall.

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