Bane Macleod

Drama-Alert Level 5

A friend of mine, Emma, recently had her website hacked to pieces by some rotten P.O.S. who has been targeting vBulletin bulletin boards over the past couple weeks. She came to me for help putting her site back together and although her last site backup was better than 2 months old we managed to do so without losing more than 800 posts (from post counts). 800 posts may seem a lot, but when compared with the difference between the two databases it ends up being somewhere around 92,000 less posts than she would have lost had she reverted to the backup she had on hand.

A very nice side effect of my going over there has been meeting the folks on the website that I have been a silent admin on for more than a year now. Being a technical advisor to a website doesn't usually involve much hands-on experience; however I may have to change that a bit in the future as the folks over there are quite a great crowd.

A couple users have been extremely helpful; Chloe, Q, and Gem have all gone out of their way to help me with the changes I had to make. And the other users from the chat room have also been most excellent. At the risk of seeming like a 12 year old I shall name those who deserve naming for some reason or another. Kitty teh pretty (a rhyme I roxxor) , Julie, Aga, Caroline, tania, Essy, Stu, Shirphie my absolutely unknowing baton of ultimate justice, Heather, Britney, Patrick, Andy, Juliana, Stacy, Pickles for being so concerned, Vie the friggin Bill hater, and Steven for keeping me absolutely puzzled almost constantly. Oh, and Nat.. *poke prod slobber*

Mostly an introduction to the people I'm spending the most time with lately so those of you who come here regularly will know who I'm talking about when I say things like "Man, that wanker Q is pissing me off" or "Gemma wants to hump my leg".