We’re Back Online!
As of this very second, euicho.com is finally back online, and will remain that way. I’d like to take a minute to apologize for the three-week long downtime euicho.com just experienced.
I’m not one to like making excuses, but I would like to let you know what happened. On 6/28 I got an email from my hosting company telling me a new invoice had been made, and was due on 7/2. I’m not used to deadlines that close to first notices, so I waited until payday to pay it, which was 7/1.
My credit card information was stolen from paypal.com some time around the end of june (I have been dealing with them about all that), and my bank rightly deactivated my card when someone in Romania (I’m not making this up!) tried to relieve me of my checking acct. funds. I know everyone knows if you get an email about personal info you are to delete it immediately, but my bank told me there are a new round of spoof sites going up with addresses like paypal-ca.net and the like that are indistinguishable from the real paypal.com exept for the all-too-familiar url. If you get ANY email from paypal, ebay, etc, don’t click the links in it. Just delete it. If you are still curious about whether your account really does require action on your behalf, type http://www.paypal.com into your browser yourself and check your account then. Similar ebay-clones etc. are also popping up. Please, be cautious people.
Moving on, I got all my paypal and bank logins changed, as well as a new debit card, but I have no credit cards (I don’t trust myself with them) and couldn’t pay my now overdue hosting charges until my replacement card came. It did 10 days later, and i promptly paid my bills.
It was supposed to take a day or two to re-activate my site, but when it didn’t come back online, I decided to wait longer, hoping it would eventually come back. This was my big mistake. I should have contacted Ace-host immediately.
I finally submitted a help desk ticket to them last night at 10:30pm EST and they had my site back online within hours. They are a great (and cheap!) company and I should have contacted them immediately.
Moral of the story: DON’T PROCRASTINATE, TOM!!!
As penance for what I’ve done I’ll leave you with an image that should have never see the light of day, but will likely make you all laugh at me out loud…
Pecos Tom
S. L. Gagnon 9:25 am on 7/30/2005 Permalink
Hi Son:
just catching up on your blog after a couple months. Some very interesting “stuff” you have posted, albeit some of it is way over my head. hahah (testing Meme Propagation in blogspace)
Anyway, take care and hope to see you home again soon…. love you
DAD
Johnny B 3:26 am on 8/2/2005 Permalink
yo.
good to see you back online foo.
cali sucks and such.
be back in Portland and Brewer on the 16th.
perhaps i’ll drop by.
Johnny B 3:28 am on 8/2/2005 Permalink
btw.
me don’t like the Pecos Tom look.
then again, I’ve got some fucked up 1969-ish Led Zeppelin hair.
need a cut.
Jalbey 8:29 am on 8/2/2005 Permalink
All that is missing from the Pecos looks is a can of Blue Ribbon beer and a leather vest.
Johnny B 4:36 am on 8/3/2005 Permalink
very very very very freakin tru Jalb.
euicho 1:27 pm on 8/4/2005 Permalink
lol I don’t like it either, but I do laugh at it occasionally.
Oooh brewer on the 16th?! Sweet!
I’ll dress up the next time I shave my beard.
Doody 1:37 am on 8/5/2005 Permalink
I like it. I think you should ‘drive truck,’ like I hear so much about.
Nyrath the nearly wise 11:04 am on 8/5/2005 Permalink
I understand about your reluctance to own a credit card, since I had the same problem. However, it is useful to have one JUST FOR THE INTERNET for things like PayPal. This is because it is insanely dangerous to use a debit card on the internet. With a credit card you are only liable for $50, with a debit card a thief could clean out your bank account. Which would be really annoying.
So get a credit card, lock it in a safety deposit box, and only use it on the net. I know how those evil plastic cards can burn a hole in your pocket, but you just have to resist!
And when I start wavering, I am secure in the knowlege that your aunt will spear me with her steely eyes and bring me back to my senses.
Nyrath the nearly wise 7:09 pm on 8/5/2005 Permalink
Heh, ah, your adorable aunt says that she has never “speared me with her steely eyes”. In truth, she just questions how fiscally responsible the decision is and leaves it at that.
euicho 9:59 pm on 8/7/2005 Permalink
Very good points about the card, I may just do that.
Oh, they never *think* they spear you, but you can smell your shirt smoldering under their gaze! And it is amazing how a woman can induce guilt with the most innocent sounding of words.
Nyrath the nearly wise 10:11 am on 8/8/2005 Permalink
I think it is possible to get a credit card with a small credit limit, like $500, just for Internet purchases.
Roger, that; your comments on women. You do realize, of course, that my second posting was due to your adorable aunt reading my first post, and taking exception to her portrayal therein.
euicho 11:50 pm on 8/10/2005 Permalink
LOL, yes, I figured that. Women have a way of being so cute that we must obey their every whim.