New Dandelion Wine CD: The Face on Mars

I took the photo above earlier this afternoon. Sue and Tom dropped by with contributor copies of the new Dandelion Wine CD, The Face On Mars. Urban Tapestry had fun helping out on a few of the tracks and I even sing on one of them (eek!).

Jealous of everyone going to Duckon this weekend.

Young robin

I spotted this robin outside our front door. It didn't seem that afraid of me, even when I went back in to grab my telephoto lens then came out to take some photos.

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Torkidlit tweetup

For those interested, I've posted about last night's monthly get-together of theToronto Middle Grade & Young Adult Writers' Group, whom I met via Twitter.

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Recovering from the hack attack

Still working on some clean-up from the Wordpress installation compromise on the weekend, but thank you SO MUCH to my technonerdboy husband for all the work he did to get my sites up and running again. If you're a Wordpress user, please read my report on what happened and what I'm doing to lessen the chances of it happening again. This could very easily happen to you and believe me, you DON'T want the hassle.

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Malware attack on Inkygirl & my sister's site :-(

I was hoping to be writing up a report about the fun I had at Errol Elumir's first housefilk (see my burry iPhone pics of the event here) but instead I've been trying to fix my Inkygirl site and my sister's site, which were hacked late last night. Very frustrating, and I can't login to make a backup, delete plugins, clean up the account. Advice appreciated. Changing the passwords on all my accounts...

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