Hack Attack

Hackers are trying to weasel their way into my website. How do I know? My webmaster pulls up info and shows it to me all the time. Up to this point, we’ve had seven hacking attempts, and they’ve all failed.

“How do you keep them out?” I can hear you saying. It’s easy: If you look at my spinning globe on the homepage of www.jerrybegly.com , you will see a character holding a sign which says something. The character came from Camp Pinetar, a comic strip that I drew several years ago. His name is “Hacker”, and he was way ahead of his time. (He hooked up a fax machine to his 3-D computer program and was faxing camp meatloaf to Africa. The natives at the other end thought that the fax machine was spitting out bricks for their new hospital.)

If you can catch it, the sign has a cryptic “anti hacker” message on it. One free t-shirt (no kidding) will be given to the first person who emails me and explains WHAT the sign says, and HOW it is used!

Bonus round: One free t-shirt (no kidding) will be given to the person who can email me and tell me what was used to make the squeaking sound on the globe. You must be specific. You haven’t heard the squeaking sound, or oiled the globe? What’s wrong with your computer?

Anyway, hacking is not encouraged in our society, but I can tell you the name of one major company in our area that is completely vulnerable to hackers. They are a multi-million dollar entity, and they must have a two-bit IT department. Shame. Maybe someday, you’ll see a spinning “Hacker” globe on their home page…

20,000 Hits Below the Belt

We launched “www.jerrybegly.com” on April 1, 2009. That was no mistake. Yesterday we totaled over 20,000 hits. Wow.

It humbles me to know that more than 10 people enjoy reading my blog. Hopefully, it’s because you can relate a little bit to what’s going on in my posts. Or maybe you are transported to a time or place that you’ve not experienced, and that intrigues you. That’s what writing is supposed to be about.

This site is all about “hitting below the belt.” Here, we get to make up the journalistic rules. I get to call ’em like I see ’em, and I won’t have an editor throw me out of his office like happened at the Aspen Daily News one time. (cartoons that poke fun at gays aren’t tolerated in Aspen).

In sappy dweeb language, I would have to say that Caleb, my Webmaster, and you the reader/subscriber are the last two legs of my three-legged stool of blogdom. Thank you. If you really like a post, send it to a friend and share the irreverence. One of my favorites is “Bugs Bunny and the Mexicans.”

Now let’s get on with the show…