Once upon a time there was a little sewing blog. A humble blog with fewer than 100 posts, but a loved blog, with photos of projects, thoughts on the craft and even a few tutorials. The owner of that blog had big plans for it.
Then life got in the way. Children off to school. Mom back in the workforce, balancing schedules between kids, a husband who worked across town & just one car between them all.
One day, the owner of that humble little blog set aside some time for writing again, only to discover the worst: her blog had been hijacked, its database wiped clean, and all her writing gone forever. It was devastating. She put down her pen, set aside her creativity & set her logic to ‘techie fix mode’.
After that, she wrote two or three more posts. Her heart wasn’t truly in it this time & it was mostly crap – but an effort was being put in. She knew things would get better.
Until they got worse.
Logging back into WordPress one day, she found that her poor (even littler than before) blog had once again been hijacked & wiped clean. Hadn’t she learned her lesson about backups? Nope. Not with only a couple of posts on the site.
Let it be known that this is no family sewing site. I drink wine, swear, & sew, often at the same time.
I have a few choice words & phrases for the bastards that did this & no inclination to hold them back.
Mother-fucking unimaginative boors who have nothing better to do with their time & brains than tear down & destroy what other people create to share & love with the world. Probably spending hours sitting in their parents’ basement just looking for things to damage & delete & high-fiving themselves as “hackers”.
*Ahem*
hack•er
-noun slang
1. skilled computer enthusiast
2. computer user who tries to gain unauthorized access to systems
(Source: Dictionary.com)
I don’t see anything in that description about being purposefully hurtful or destructive. So let’s add a new entry to the dictionary:
hack•oser
-noun slang
Derived from hack•er + los•er
1. computer enthusiast completely lacking moral compassion and an ability to create anything worthwhile
2. a jealous motherfucker
The term ‘hacker’ brings to mind, for me, someone who explores, learns, & dissects computers, both software & hardware. While oftentimes what they do or get into may not be legal, I do not consider hacking itself to be malicious. Telling a hacker that they cannot do something would probably be taken as a challenge, but not one in which the point would be to tear down whatever/wherever that challenge has lead them. The assholes who chose to delete my words are the same people who give true hackers a bad name, and are the reason the words strike fear into the hearts of people. Omg…hackers! They’re out to get me! Bullshit. Hackers are out to learn. Assholes are out to get you.
I was having a hard time figuring out how to start my blog back up. There was no doubt that I had to talk about these events, so I figured making that bitter end into a new beginning would take me back to where I wanted to be.
If you’ve stuck through this post, I certainly hope you’ll come back for more. In future, you can even expect some posts about…SEWING! 
