Don't Back Down

By a show of hands, who in the audience thinks it is a good idea to find someone on the Internet to castrate you in your own home? You, over there near Pittsburgh - what were you thinking?!? Were you thinking at all?

As bizarre as this story is, it's not unique. A similar thing happened in Saskatchewan two years ago. In fact, 2001 was a big year for do-it-yourself castrations, with at least one other story listed on the front page of Google!

Come on people - Hiring someone off of the Internet is a good idea? To perform the operation in your own home and toss the pieces in the garbage? It amazes me how people that are this stupid can continue to reproduce. Then again, maybe they're trying to stop themselves, and this is the solution that seems to have the best chances for success.

I'm not sure what happened today. My host hasn't been particularly responsive. It seems that many of my CGI scripts decided to change permissions, from 755 to 644, meaning they wouldn't run. Until just a moment ago, I had also been locked out of FTP access to the site. Very strange indeed.

It seems that most static pages (ie, HTML) were fine. However, if you tried to access something that was dynamic (ie, a CGI script), then you may have received an error. This could have been while leaving a comment or sending a trackback.

If you did receive an error while accessing the site, please try again. Everything seems to be working at the moment. Thanks for your patience.