(You know it's bad enough that I hardly ever update this, but I've noticed that when I do, it's usually while I'm at work. You know, when I'm being paid to do something else.) Because people have asked, here is a quick run-down on the "evil hacking incident" mentioned on the first page. About 2 months ago, about the same time as I got back from Otakon my website was hacked. One minute it was there, the next the index page had been altered to read "Kittens?" and nothing else. The rest of the site was fine. I immediately changed all my passwords, fired off a note to my webprovider, ace-host.net, and reuploaded the page. On review, I remembered that Shadow had told me that my phpBB2 board needed updating and that there was a hack that could let people in a backdoor. So figureing that might be it, I updated the messageboard and went about my life. A full MONTH later, ace-host.net shuts down my website, email and ftp access with no warning. They splash a note across my domain saying that I should contact support/billing. (Which makes it look like I haven't paid my frickin' bill which I had a week earlier!!) After about a week of give and take between me and my host as I try to get them to give me back access to my website, they FINALLY tell me why they shut down my site a month after the original incident. Apparently my account had been sending out massive amounts of denial of service type attacks. They noticed the spike and traced it to a file evidently placed during the initial hack. I'm unsure of that. I caught it literally as it was happening, I suspect one of my hostees might have been running the same faulty board I had been and I just got re-hacked. Ace-host and I argued a bit more back and forth as they were going to deny me access to any of my files and just wanted to wipe the whole account. Now I'm pretty good about backing up my files and all, but not *that* good. Especially with the more interactive sections like the Oekaki and the messageboard. I was especially worried about the Oekaki. I hadn't backed it up at all, mainly 'cause I wasn't sure how. I didn't want to loose all the great artwork people had put up on the site! So I put my foot down and after a *lot* of arguing they finally gave my a zip of my site. 90% of the site was updated from older backups, but at least now I can go through the 10% with a fine toothed comb and eventually get it back up. Here is the short list of what still needs to be done: 1) Restore the messageboard "skin" so that it matches with the site. 2) Restore the "Shop" section of the site. 3) Restore the Links section of the Fruits Basket Resources 4) Restore the Oekaki board 5) Restore Otakon 2005 photos to the gallery The main thing preventing me from doing 1-4 is plain old remembering how to do it. It's been a long time since I initiall set those sections up (years in some cases) and I just don't remember how. In some cases, like the links section, the software has been upgraded from semi-useful and free to chock full of features and way to expensive for me to buy. It'll take me a while to get things sorted out. Stupid hackers.