Thursday 31 May 2012

Hacker Attacks & Compliance Problems

It's a Classic!


Well a month has elapsed since I was last here so I thought I'd better post a quick update on progress, or lack thereof, since the last time I was here. I guess I'll start with the shoulder since that was the topic of my last post. I was able to rest it fully for two weeks in a sling and in the third week I started to take it out for a few hours per day. I have totally dispensed with it now and have my long awaited first physiotherapy session tomorrow but I have started doing exercises which target the shoulder already. I'll be interested to get some more pointers tomorrow as the ones I know are more specific to the previous tear rather than this latest injury - acromioclavicular separation if you've forgotten or not read the other post.

The blog at http://relevantsocialmedia.co.uk has been down for over a fortnight and having had a professional look into it on my behalf it turns out it was the subject of hackers! I've no idea who would want to do that so I really hope it's nobody that I know and that I was just unlucky. I've been busy trying to learn as much as I can about Article Marketing and I've had limited success so far. Needless to say I'd have preferred to be able to use the hosted blog to kick off with that, indeed I don't really see another option so I'll either be setting up an entirely new hosted blog, or resurrecting the original one. I say "I" but my Uncle will be doing all the heavy lifting and I'll be watching and learning.

I'm in the throes of the Google Appeal system at the moment because Im trying to set up an AdSense account and have had no success with that endeavour. I originally tried to use the aforementioned hosted blog but the site wasn't compliant for reasons which were not entirely borne out.

I'm not sure what else I can tell you, other than that the recent CloudForce event in London was not attended by myself which I'm really quite gutted about. I was going to have to cut my travelling arrangements very fine and had even paid for it when events beyond my control forced me to call it off so yeah, very disappointed about that.

Since I was last here the Samsung Galaxy SIII has been launched and is actually now on sale but it's going to be a while before I can get my grubby little hands on one. That is a state of affairs which I'm not happy about at all but not one that I can change anytime soon unfortunately.

I've kicked off a new regime for my mornings and early afternoons anyway and I'm having quite a bit of success at sticking to it. It helps that I'm actually quite interested in Excel, which I try to spend at least an hour a day learning new skills and formula on, as well as Google Analytics, stuff for my Business Studies A2 and a lot of stuff on Marketing.

So that is a very brief synopsis of some of the events of the last 32 days or so. I will be back here before long as this may well end up being the main place I blog from for quite some time, depending on the mission to restore the blog and my search for a stable but affordable host.

Next time.