I’m back!

Some of you may have noticed my sudden, unexpected hiatus from the blogging world. Here’s the explanation.

It all started earlier this year with some kind of weird technical glitch when I visited this site. Somehow some of my WordPress files were corrupted. Pissed off, I appealed for help, and with the help of some really nice people on Facebook (you guys know who you are!) I managed to replace the corrupted files and get it all working again.

Then things just seemed to get worse. For no good reason, malicious software warnings popped up on the site. People complained that Google was stopping them from accessing my site. I looked into it, and really didn’t know what I was doing. I tried my best to back things up, and deleted the site.

As busy as I was, the site stayed down for quite some time.

As I tried putting it all back together. Somehow I just couldn’t do it right. My blog seemed to load fine, but some weird error message just keeps showing up after about half a minute at the main page. The permalinks didn’t work either. I was just too busy with school, with my activities to bother.

The blog just rotted there, half-assed and full of malicious code, neglected and alone.

Recently, the school work started to pile up, and things started to get a wee bit stressful. On one of those stressful nights, I just lay on bed and asked myself questions like: What do I really want from life? What makes me happy in life? What should I do to live my ideal life? And then it came to me – I loved writing, I loved inspiring, I loved reflecting – and my dear blog managed to help me do just that.

In fact, one of my great goals is to cultivate a powerful online presence through this blog (check out the goals page) and every day that this blog spends in malicious code hell is another day taken away from working towards my goals!

That really got me working and Googling on how to restore my blog and clean up the malicious code from the site. I poured through the many different files to look for weird code, installed antivirus plugins, contacted Google Webmaster tools for an analysis as well as a re-listing of the site, and now that I got the permalinks all fixed. Kevinc.net is all back to full health again.

Resuscitated.

Revived.

Resurrected.

I missed you guys, my dear readers. But fear not, I’m back, with a darned clear purpose this time. Let’s all keep improving our lives, one step a day.