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Last year, I promised to collect my most important posts, and write commentary on them.
I’m turning to that now, and I have some that’ll definitely be there.
But I’d like to know what readers think to help me choose others. Please let me know in the comments, or feel free to email me (admin-at-ianwelsh-dot-net.) If you want to add something extra, let me know why you think it was a post that mattered.
If you’ve been reading me for a long time, please think back a bit on older posts. I’ve been writing for a long time now…
So, yesterday someone managed to hack the blog and blog one post. I took it down, and fixed the security flaw (I think) which allowed it to happen.
However, I didn’t consider the e-mail notification system and it went out with the nightly push. (Your email addresses are almost certainly not compromised, they are on a different system than the blog, with different security.)
My apologies. This should be the last time, though there’s a small chance it isn’t.
I’m going to the hospital for major, but unlikely to be serious, surgery. I’ll most likely be in for ten days to two weeks, with two months recovery after that. I go in Tuesday.
The odds of death are about 1 percent. In that unlikely event, all my writing goes into the commons (with attribution), not to any heirs, and people may scrape this site or whatever. Those with preview copies of “Construction of Reality” should share them in case of death. People with author rights can post here if they want until the domain registration expires. (This is only if I die, eh? No posting or commons-ing without permission (posting permission has been given to Mandos) until you hear I have died or I’m brain dead or something.)
More likely, I’ll be fine, just not enjoying myself much. I’ve put some posts in the queue for the two weeks I’m likely to be in the hospital. Moderation of comments may be non-existent, so if you get caught in moderation (an automated process, remember) please bear up. Other people with modding rights might check in, but they might not.
I’ll likely hang out on Twitter a bit while in the hospital if you want updates–hospital is borrring!–@iwelsh. I certainly hope all my readers will be having a better time than I’m likely to be!