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Back in the saddle again

January 28th, 2010

Well, VT has a functional website again. It’s still a little buggy, and we’re still missing a ton of content, but at least we don’t have a static “under construction” message for a website anymore.

Some of our book pages don’t show all the formats available… and lots of our 2010 releases are missing totally. I’ve managed to repost all of our press releases, and I’ve posted two author bios, but none of the events are showing, and I have dozens of author appearances and news to repost. Our newsletter program needs to be set up from scratch, and oh yeah, I’m about 3 books behind in our publication schedule.

This is starting out to be one heckuva year. At least the Mariners are looking good… Read more »

Revenge of the hackers

January 12th, 2010

OMG.

That’s all I can think right now. OMG.

Our website is dead. Finito. End of life. Sigh.

It appears that someone with too much time on his hands hacked the website and deleted our database. But that’s okay, because we had a backup system installed, and we haveĀ a fairly current backup of the database. Whew!

The only problem is, the backup is corrupt. Read more »