So, while working in my workshop, I needed something I could listen to, so I found a YouTube “audiobook” of Mansfield Park, one of the most frustrating, but subtly-layered of Austen’s novels. Listening to the book read forced me to realize how many pages must be taken up by people…
There are about a hundred hack attempts on this page every day. But it got broken recently because one of my OTHER pages got hacked successfully, and the advice I received from the GoDaddy tech broke all of my sites at the same time. The next GoDaddy “tech” said it…
LOTS of hack attempts are happening. I have backed this site up two ways as a preventative. Hope we can stay online without any interruptions.
Turns out that several other folks have been trying to hack this site, in really weird ways, including Denial of Service attacks and Brute Force password hacking. I keep the WordPress software and my security plugins updated, and change passwords frequently. But it keeps happening. My hosting supplier GoDaddy has…
Last week, there were twenty-some hacking attempt on this site. Today, there were 20 of a different kind of attempt. What is it about Jane Austen that makes people want to break in and post ads for objectionable sites and services? Just a reminder that if you want to join,…
Just discovered that some spammer auto-registered and dumped all kinds of crap into the comments sections. I don’t check back as often as I should, so this went on for several minutes before I noticed it. Another person had “autoregistered” with a realistic sounding name, but with an e-mail that…
In Austen’s day, the upper and middle classes were rigidly defined, yet rectors, victors, and even – sometimes – lowly curates could move a rung up (or down) the social ladder if circumstances and aptitudes worked in their favor. No one probably documented this better than Austen herself. As the…
Saw this online and couldn’t resist. Might be from Nancy Goeke Whiting, but not sure.
My millennial and younger friends can’t believe I own shelves full of DVDs (and a few Blu Rays). “Everything you’ll ever want to watch is on streaming,” they tell me, “why waste all that space?” They’re wrong. If I shared their tastes – that is to say, if was only…
Every year states and countries add more restrictions on what customer information web sites can collect. Since we hardly collect any information unless you contact us first, there is hardly anything you need to know. But we’re publishing an updated statement anyway to remove any question. The main thing to…