Finally recoversing the site from a massive hack attack. Most of my site had previously been put together on PmWiki, which was a great wiki and a very easy to use content management tool. However, it had some weak security and someone exploited it, ran a bunch of code through my wiki and sent out 45,000 emails phising for private info. Yikes. I’ve spent a lot of today on the phone with John over at dollarhost and we have figured out what’s going on. The site was so corrupted that we had to delete and reset …
San Francisco OSonOS 2008 has begun with Lisa Heft opening up space in a beautiful building at San Francisco’s Presidio this morning for 120 of us from more than 15 countries to get into what Open Space is all about. This is my third worldwide OSonOS and I love these gatherings because I get to hang around with people for three days that I don;t have to explain myself to! That, I think may be a good working definition of a community of practice. THis one is different for me as I am here with my whole family, …
Photo by aikijuanma Here is a lovely story of youth adding beauty to the world by setting up a poetry stand and giving away instantly crafted poems to anyone who asked for them. A few months ago as I was walking in Government Street in Victoria I met a woman standing beneath a tree outside Munro’s Books. The tree had small pieces of paper attached to them and when I looked closer I saw that they were poems, hanging on a “poet tree.” The poet turned out to be Yvonne Blomer and she asked me if she could read me …
I have a wonderful family. They put up with this graph all the time, but they don’t ask the question. I have just had a full week at home, my first since September. Off to Victoria next week for a week of meetings with VIATT and then home for Christmas and then a two week shutdown of all Harvest Moon Consultants activity. Blogging will be light as I reacquaint myself with my home.