My harmonica links site crashed. It is being hit hard by spammers and I try to stay one step ahead by changing the page to add a new link. The spam robots still hit the older forms at a rate of 20 to 30 spam links a day. When a robot finds the new page, I disable it and create another one, leaving the old one as spam bait.

I think that I was hit by a SQL Injection attack. Since there are no user ids or maintenance pages per se, the only thing they could do was drop the database.

It wound up costing me $15 to restore the db. I have written a php backup program that backs up the site every two days. I made it generic and I will be adding it to all sites that use a database.

I have dropped the SF story of the day site and ScienceFictional.com now points here. My author’s site KeithGraham.com now points here, too. I don’t have any of my fiction on my sites anymore – I couldn’t see any profit in it. I know, I am supposed to be writing to be read, but the fiction site was getting only a few hundred hits a month. I’d rather be read on sites that pay me.

I am going to start reading my stories into MP3 files again. I am getting a few hundred downloads a week on my audio stories and recently I have received some very nice comments asking me for more. I still think that audio stories are the way to go. The success of the iPod and now the iPhone just go to show you that the next generation will not read, but they will listen.

Does anyone know of a site like youtube.com that lets you share mp3 files in the same way?