The Cowbird Diary: http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/

I was kindly invited to keep a personal diary on the impressive new website, cowbird.com and despite my heavy workload I decided to give it a whirl.  The whole cowbird website might pull you in -- there are some amazing things happening there, with tons of authentic storytelling, lots of great photos and some humbling reports from the trenches of everyday life.  The shared "saga" approach to community journalism is unique, too.  You can find my profile on http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/  Haven't been journaling for awhile now, and while I've always preferred to keep my daily life private, this still seemed like…

My website at gorelets.com is finally restored…and a smidge improved. Perhaps even jaunty.

Back online at gorelets.com Drop by anytime. You'll be fine. It's really all better now and no longer contagious.  A sneaky piece of malware had climbed under the blanket of my website, slipping inside the code of my online gallery, and it spread like mating bedbugs. The malware would use my site to ping off russian spambots behind the scenes and replicate whenever a visitor hit a page on the site.  But I've burned the mattress and it's all back up now, squeaky clean. Past visitors should be fine; the malware really didn't do any harm to them.  But you…

Gorelets.com will be down this weekend for maintenance

My website, gorelets.com is currently down for roughly 48 hours of maintenance. I will post an update here when the status changes. A piece of malware was discovered in the system that was running the gallery on the site. It is not a virus that can harm any visitor's machine, but it did corrupt files on my server and was spreading wantonly.  Beyond this, the worst thing this malware could do was redirect visitors to spam sites at random times. I am in the process of purging and scrubbing all files to make the site squeaky clean. While I do…

Site Shift: New Page for MichaelArnzen.com!

I've changed hosts for my social networking hub -- from posterous.com to flavors.me -- because the latter has the minimalism and simplicity I have been aiming for. The domain remains http://michaelarnzen.com But some older links that invoked my old hub may no longer work, navigating you down into a level of Dante's hell that Dante never mentioned before -- called "Expurgatory" (never to be uttered aloud) -- for fear of driving the average man mad.  Other former links might be absorbed by spambots spawned from the android womb of Robot Justin Bieber, who lives in an underground bunker rumored to…