Thanks for being patient with me. I haven’t posted in a while because of some­thing that hap­pened last week.

You see, my blog was hacked (not by a per­son but with mali­cious code that creeped into my blog), and as a result I was blocked by Google. I’m sure you’ve heard about it, as peo­ple talked about the news.

How did it get blocked?

When­ever my site(s) came up in Google, there was a “this site may harm your com­puter” warn­ing. And when peo­ple clicked on my link, it lead them to a Google error page pre­vent­ing peo­ple from access­ing my site.

Appar­ently, Google checks its indexed pages against a data­base of “known offend­ers” (at Stop​Bad​ware​.org, which is sim­i­lar to many IP black­lists for spam), and turned all my list­ings on Google to unreachable.

So my site wasn’t banned. But the worse part was, Google not only blocked my site but also dis­played a dire warn­ing that my site was mali­cious! (You can only imag­ine what kind of dam­age this can cause to someone’s reputation.)

But that’s not all…

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