I got hacked.

Well, not me directly. That would not be possible, given that I am a carbon based life form without the ability to connect directly to the internet. And ok, technically it wasn’t even the site that got hacked. It was the host’s servers. But let’s not split hairs. It’s been a bad enough week as it is without getting into an argument over the semantics of hackery.

So if you’ve been here before, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve changed the layout. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, whilst we managed to salvage all the actual posts, it seems that a lot of the images I uploaded over the last few months were lost. And quite frankly, I could not be arseholed with uploading them all again. Secondly: the previous layout didn’t really make it easy to write shorter posts. Because of how it was structured (with an image-heavy front page), I always felt it necessary to try and write a bloody essay on the chosen subject. Plus every post necessitated finding a banner image and a post image, cropping and uploading etc. Not the most time consuming thing in the world, but just enough to make posting something that little bit less enjoyable. And thirdly: because I like this layout. I’ll still be adding images to my posts so the front page won’t look too boring (like it does now).

So I hope that’s all ok with you, but am more than happy to tell you to shove right up your big fat arse if it isn’t.

Having to re-jig Virtually Past It was no major hardship then. What was (and still is) a huge pain in the cock was losing my ‘proper’ website, that is the one I use for work. I built that site up from scratch and it took me ages. When you run your own business, losing something as fundamental as your website is a Pretty Big Deal. I’ve managed to get the home page more or less back to what it was, and the inner pages aren’t a million miles away, but all in all it’s been really fucking frustrating to have to do it again. Which brings me to my question:

Are all hackers complete cunts or what?

I yearn for the days when Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy could nearly bring forth nuclear armageddon with an IMSAI 8080 and a dial up modem with actual fucking phone on it. Ok, they may have come close to exterminating 90% of life on earth. But they weren’t cunts.

Not cunts

I can understand why someone might want to hack into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account, or NASA, or the CIA, or any number of heavily-protected government websites. To do so would (I imagine) represent a real challenge in pitting one’s wits as a hacker againt those of the people paid to protect the data. Or in Palin’s case, by guessing her password in about five seconds then Googling the answers to her security questions. Hard to believe this shit-for-brains may one day be placed in a position to go one better than Broderick and Sheedy managed. But I digress.

The point is, knocking out a bunch of websites belonging either to individuals or small businesses is properly cunty. There’s no financial reward and, as far as I can imagine, little kudos either. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe somewhere there is a group of hackers warmly congratulating one of their number with virtual high fives and digital back slaps for briefly removing a tiny video games blog from the internet.

Cunts, either way.

And here’s some breaking news: as I write this at 1.50pm on Friday afternoon, they’ve done it again! Although Virtually Past It seems to have escaped this attack for now, my ‘work’ has been hacked. Hooray for hackers! They’re really sticking it to the man. Even if in this instance, the man is literally one man. Me.

Still, there we are. No point getting too irate about it. And I think it’s clear that despite my liberal use of the word cunt (and variants thereof) that I’m completely chilled.

Honest.

Some games related shit coming soon.