Today I decided I had to post somethings on my sites, it’d been a few days and if I waited any longer it would just be to long! Most of you may or may not know that Chris and I have been having some issues with our host and now our home network. Last week our sites were hacked into on three seperate occusions. We noticed that the last time that all the sites that were on the same server as us at our hosting company had also been hacked. Over 500 sites on one server completely taken over by these people. We corrected the problem and we were back up before anyone really noticed. Within the next few days the server went down completely, and according to our home router never have came back up.

Strange? Yes. We haven’t been able to pin point the problem. Currently I’m connected directly to our modem and I can access everything fine. However when I go through our Router (Netgear RangeMax) we can’t on any four of our computers access our websites. We’ve had two of our friends who are ITs look into it and they can’t figure it out. My next step will be to return our router and get a new one to see if that fixes the problem. We’ve really not had this modem for that long so it shouldn’t have problems like this. So returning it and getting another one only seems like the logical thing to do. If it’s still blocked then there’s something that’s more wrong than we thought.

In better news my buddy Bob is having one heck of a contest over on his site, BobBuskirk.com. He just launched a new layout for his site and he’s giving away some really nice prizes. Here’s a list of the prizes.

Prize #1: JohnChow.com 1 month Stripe Ad – $250 Value. This is the ad that you see on the top of JohnChow.com – Provided By John Chow.

Prize #2: Griffin iPhone Prize Pack – $185 Value. This prize pack includes 1 iTrip Auto Pilot, 1 Power Dock (2-dock), and 1 Wave Case 2 Pack. – Provided By ThinkComputers.

Prize #3: OptIn Comments WordPress Plugin – $97 Value. OptIn Comments will directly capture a reader’s name and email address from his comment on your blog and then directly send it to an email form of your choice. Then you can use your own email marketing campaign to build relationship and earn potential income. – Provided By Ian Fernando.

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To Enter all you have to do is go to his blog and comment on his post (1 entry), Subscribe to his site via e-mail (1 entry), and/or you can write a blog post talking about his contest and linking back to him (5 entrys). So what are you waiting for? Go do one (or all) of the three and get entered in this contest it ends very soon!

Hopefully our router situation is resolved fairly soon and I can post without having to rearrange our office area. If you have any ideas as to what might cause this too please leave me a comment and let me know. Thanks!!