Last month, I got a tour of an upstart web TV station, OnlyOneTV.com. With not much beyond a few cheap cameras and lights, some video switching software and a fast internet connection, these guys are hosting and creating a bunch of TV talk shows on a variety of topics. It reaffirms something that I first realized in the middle 1990s when I read Paul A. McKinley's memoir of his WWII service at his website, CruiserScout.com. "Traditional" media like over the air TV and radio, cable and satellite, printed newspapers and magazines, theatrical films, they all put a lot of effort…

Around 4 or 4:30 AM Eastern time my web host, inmotionhosting.com, was hacked.  Mine was one of many that were "defaced", displaying a crude message announcing that the site had been "HackeD By TiGER-M@TE", and displaying a handful of what I presume where the hackers' handles. My compliments to Inmotoion for resolving the problem for all of us in a timely manner. I have to say that I'm disappointed by the hackers, though.  I feel that they should have put a little more, or any, effort into their graphics package.  I suspect that they simply bought some prebuilt package of hacking software…