Published 5 days, 8 hours ago
in Foehammer's Anvil, Rants and Foehammer.
My friends, I am alive and well. However, the Anvil has been the victim of a barrage of hacking since March and I have reached a point where I do not know if I will be able to contend with it for much longer. Bots are automatically sniffing my site and looking for any vulnerabilities 24/7. The ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ article was yet another instance of hacking — this time not bringing down my databases, but somehow inserting code that managed to close comments and remove the body of text from the article itself.
Yes, the Anvil was hacked yet again yesterday morning. That makes three times in the past 11 days.
Do not panic. I can and will weather the storm. I fully expect such attempts to continue, just as all the other forms of censorship and abuse have come my way since going full-time and full-tilt with this blog back in January of 2007. Death threats haven’t killed me. Digg.com banning me hasn’t stopped me. Fatwa-worthiness hasn’t scared me off. Extortion didn’t shut me down. Hackers help build my traffic and reputation.
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
in Foehammer's Anvil, Blogosphere and Censorship.
The First Amendment. It guarantees my Right to Free Speech. Yet, here we are 6 months later, after I originally brought up the issue of Foehammer.com (sister domain to Foehammer.net) being listed as a ‘hate site’, and it is still unchanged from or has reverted back to “1.Violence/Hate/Racism” categorization by SonicWall, one or the other.
I cannot abide censorship and so I am once again asking that you take a minute and follow the instructions originally listed in the an article here mid-way through 2007:
Even if you are a regular reader here, you may not have noticed that I have slightly altered the welcoming message at the top of the main page to the Anvil this morning. It has been changed as follows, the following lines being added:
“If you are not prepared to discuss all enemies of the United States Constitution and the Republic, turn back now. If you are ready to give up Western idealism and Europe itself, turn back now.”
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Published 2 months, 1 week ago
in Foehammer's Anvil.
No, that’s not tires you’re smelling; that’s the Anvil pages flying by on the Web! Thanks to the hard work of the folks at my new server hosting company and some new optimizations I tossed in over the past two days, the Anvil is now loading at speeds that make me grin from ear to ear. I hope all of you enjoy this long awaited adrenaline shot!
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
in Foehammer's Anvil, Foehammer and Blogosphere.
What? I’m back?
Yes, it sure appears that way. Not only is the Anvil alive and kicking, it’s kicking harder than ever. I have given my old hosting company, LunarPages, the heave-ho, and if you are reading this, then you can be sure that this blog is no longer hosted by anyone that outsources their tech support, that hires people that can’t read, write and speak English fluently and that has hidden agendas within the company to make my life basically Hell on the Blogosphere.
My new hosting company will remain nameless for awhile as I settle in and wipe away the dust of several days of very hard work. Jihad News Feeds and some other web projects of mine still require migration from the old to the new host, so I will still be busily getting all things back to normal over the next few days.
I’m glad to have you back, too, gentle readers. It just wasn’t the same without you.
Oh, and LunarPages? Good riddance. Seriously. I have learned the hard way that you definitely “get what you pay for” in the blogging business. Now I’m willing to pay quite a bit more in order to have my Free Speech actually free.
Hmm. There’s a lesson in there somewhere…
Thank you.
NOTE: The contact form and email addresses typically usable to get in touch with me may not be working while the server gets situated. This will iron itself out as the Net learns to point to the new servers.
RSS, podcasts and the like will also take a few days to re-synch with the site, so please don’t freak out if everything isn’t 100% overnight. The dust will settle soon.
For the better part of two months now, the Anvil has been sputtering and gagging for air. The server has been a nightmare of slow-motion and, yes, it drives me crazy. I feel like apologizing each day to my readers for the condition of the hosting here.
However, chins up, gentle readers. I feel not so much as a blogger being hanged, as I do one that is about to find new footing on fresh ground. The next couple of weeks will spell big personal changes for me one way or another, and if things go my way, then I will not only eventually salvage the work here at the Anvil, but I will finally launch the Anvil on a fully dedicated server. It’s going to be touch and go for awhile and I can’t promise frequent updates in the interim, but hang in there, because at least the potential for vast and overdue improvements to the Anvil, long hoped for, is finally staring me in the face.
I’m still debating whether to move out of the country if Obama gets elected President…and I’m not much happier about McCain. The best choice left for the nation right now would be Huckabee, but since I’m convinced the elites have already crowned McCain King of the USA (and they started oiling the ‘machine’ way back in June of 2007), it’s really against the odds for any other Republican contender.
Most of us are still thirsting for “something completely different” in U.S. politics, but you might at least still have me breathing fire on the Blogosphere later this year. That’s about the best consolation prize that I can offer hope for right at this moment.
As many of you are aware of by now, I am experiencing problems with the hosting at the Anvil. This has been continuing off and on for months and in recent weeks it has built up a full head of steam.
This may be the last blog entry I make here at the Anvil for many days, so just be prepared. I am being badgered by my hosts with nebulous emails, unexpected service denials, etc., all during a time in my life when I need them the least and am not able to make much sense of what they claim to be the “problem” with the Anvil. In other words, I’m out of patience and short on solutions.
The Blog for a Year contest has ended. I didn’t win, but I’m quite proud of how many votes I received in the short time that I took part. The ratio of votes versus views of my profile was an unbelievable 1:2.76!
The winner was a blogger that goes by the name Absolutely True. It just goes to show you that it’s hard to compete with ‘fluff’ when you’re dealing in ‘bad news.’
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Published 4 months, 1 week ago
in Opinion, Foehammer's Anvil, Rants, Foehammer and Islam.
In January of 2007, I promised to give the Anvil more fuel than I had ever fed it before. I know that I have been true to my word in that regard. However, I also said that by December I would have some tough choices to make based on the success of this project. The Anvil has been more successful than I honestly anticipated; it has proven beyond a doubt that one man or woman can still make a difference in this confused and crazy world. Yet, I can not honestly say that it has been enough for me.
Published 4 months, 3 weeks ago
in Foehammer's Anvil and Open Threads.
No, I’m not dead, I’ve just been very busy and the Anvil has had to take a backseat to my outside obligations for a change. For instance, I had to take one of my pets in for surgery and he requires pain medication regularly; that sort of obligation. Not to mention the holidays are here. We all understand the extra burdens and stress this “festive” time of year can bring up. Ah, to be a simple child again…
Published 5 months, 1 week ago
in Foehammer's Anvil and Rants.
OK, I’m going to put this very plainly this afternoon for everyone that reads the Anvil, but mostly for a tiny few commenters that in recent weeks have spun more and more out of control.
If you come here and curse like you are in a sports locker room or the local pool hall, I will immediately delete your post. Your time will be wasted and I will not blink an eye.
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