Featured Writer – Studio 30+

I have been asked to write a featured post on the website Studio 30+, which is a gathering place for bloggers over the age of 30. I think I fit in that category nicely.

Anyway, as I was trying to come up with topics, there was one thing that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while: the side show that is Jackie Evancho. I have a feeling my singer friends who read it will be nodding their heads in agreement. I’m not so sure about the avid Jackie fans who think she’s a prodigy with a bright future. Please feel free to leave comments, as always!

Also, the video I reference in the article didn’t embed for some reason. Here it is:

Watch the full episode. See more Great Performances.

For those of you who can’t find your way over there (although you should; it’s a great place to find new blogs!), I’ll be reposting the story on this blog after a couple of days.

Just to Reiterate

Because of my own stupidity, I have managed to wipe TWO WHOLE YEARS of blogging from the face of the earth.  Luckily, nothing I really had to say was all that important, I guess, but I thought some of my observations and reviews might have been helpful to some people.  I suppose I’ll never know.

Luckily, Facebook uploaded all my posts onto its site, so I have at least something to work with.  I might be able to recreate at least the posts that I liked.

In the meantime, onward and upward.  I have to rebuild this blog, my singing website, and my caroling website.  It’ll be slow going, but it’ll get done.

A Message from Management

Yesterday I got a notice from my web host that my account was being deactivated due to suspicious activity.  Apparently someone had hacked into my WordPress account and was doing all sorts of nefarious, spamilicious things with my site.

So I uninstalled WordPress as per the instructions here.  I thought as long as I backed everything up to my hard drive, all will be well.  But I forgot to back up the database.

Why, oh, why did I delete my SQL database for my blog?  I thought I had backed up my entire blog before I wiped it (someone had hacked in here), but apparently I didn’t.  Argh.  Really, double argh.

Anyway, I don’t have time right now to fix up my blog with all its extra stuff, so stay tuned and you’ll see something soon enough.