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Happy Holidays to All!

SallyLeeByTheSea.com has a wonderful article on the holiday happenings –and Christmas Spirit– in Ilwaco this season.  From Crab Pot Christmas Tree (and crab pot carols) to the lighted boat parade (led by the US Coastguard) to the indoor Saturday Market, charming shops, and fireworks, you’ll want to be sure to check out her blog for wonderful photos and details.

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We’ve got spirit, yes we do!

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Happy Labor Day!

I haven’t been released to return to work just yet but I show up just about daily for a few hours to do a bit of this-n-that.  I can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be on a daily basis, so it must be good for me.  Besides, staying home was making me nuts!

I’m asking friends to please feel free to drop in and visit me at home but to refrain from the same when they see my car at the office.  My time here at beachdog.com is very limited and I need to spend it wisely.

Clients, I’m taking a very limited number of appointments, but you can call the office (360-642-4431) and Wendy or Sabrina will fit you in as needed.  Honestly, Wendy, Sabrina and Ethan did such a great job while I was away, I hardly feel needed around here.  I think my 12+ hour days may be in my past (yay!).  It’s pretty clear that we have a great team in place right now, based on all the positive feedback received from YOU.  Thanks for letting me know how they were doing!

I have to share this photo with you, which could as well be me at that age.  It was taken by Becky Johnson at Sandsations this past month.

Here’s to a prosperous, healthy and FUN summer!

Keleigh

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They’re Baaaack!

While we’re very committed to shopping locally, Astoria/Warrenton may be the closest place to buy office paper by the ream.  So, fellow merchants, here’s a great coupon offer (pdf) on 20# office paper, good at the new Staples in Warrenton.  $20 for a case of Hammermill that works in inkjet or laser copier/printers, good through the end of April.

We also have it on good authority that it’s a great paper for drawing and coloring (source: Avary & Royce Murry, ages 5 & 11).

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GREAT price on 20# bond paper

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Happy St Patrick’s Day!

We have a client who isn’t the most techno-saavy person.  She’s only been on facebook for a few weeks and is really just starting to get oriented to the amazing and wonderful power and diversity of the platform.  So I was a bit surprised to get a post to my wall this morning:

I zapped her a quick email that I then thought may be useful for more of you:

Unless you really got a free iPad (which I find highly doubtful), do this:

1. Log into facebook.
2. Go to: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications
3. Delete ALL applications you’re not using by clicking the blue ‘x’ to the right.
4. In the upper right hand corner, click ‘account’ then, center of the page, click ‘password’.  Change yours.
5. Now click the ‘notifications’ tab (these tabs go across the top of the white part of the page).
6. Review this page and change any checked boxes to your preferences.

That should keep facebook apps from having access to more than you prefer, and posting on your behalf.

So tell me, beachdog fans, is this useful info for you, or old hat? 

~Keleigh

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important facebook housekeeping

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Your top 5 facebook marketing questions answered

It looks like the attack that occured on 12/08 is resuming. We will post updates as soon as we have them.

Thanks you for your continued patience.

12/13/10, 1:15 pm

Server functionality has been restored. Please let us know if you encounter any lingering issues.

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Technical Difficulties

11:45 am
We’ve confirmed that the reason our server was shut down was due to a malicious attack.  The on-site server administrators continue to work on the problem; until the attack source is terminated, our server must stay offline.  Mail runs through a different machine but is not able to be directed for delivery until we can put our server back online.  This attack is affecting servers in addition to our ours; you are not alone in your frustration.

1:50 pm
We’ve just been informed that the malicious attack is increasing in severity.  Your data is safe.  Your email is safe. The only way for us to keep it that way at the moment is to keep our server offline.

If your site is NOT affected by this issue, there is no need to worry;  we’re told our other servers are [a] not under attack and [b] there is no reason to suspect they will be.

Dartmouth is a shared server, meaning we share the hardware with other companies and do not yet know if it is one of our sites, one of the others, or the machine itself that was targeted.  All of our other servers are dedicated, meaning every site on the machine is one we have built and administrate.   We will be evaluating the need to move sites on the shared server to a dedicated server when we have more information.  Any of our customers who want to make that move regardless just need to let us know: 360-642-4431 or webmaster@beachdog.com.

3:15 pm
From CEO of the company managing our hosting machines:
“Just wanted to update real quick, we have been working on this non stop and hope to have this resolved very soon.  This attack is on a scale that we haven’t seen in many years and the normal protections were not able to handle it (Cisco Guard and a lot of other protections). We are working closely with our DC to stop it and will have an update soon.”

4:10 pm
We’re pretty sure at this point that we are a part of the Wikileaks attack.  More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539
Based on Wikileaks statement of who they are trying to attack, we are confident that none of our sites were targeted but are rather casualties of the war.  We still don’t have an ETA on our server coming back online.  However, now that the attack is slowing down and malicious traffic is becoming almost manageable, we’re re-booted and able to access some of the back end of the server.  If this course continues, as we expect it to, we should see sites coming back online over the next couple of hours.  Many are back online now.

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Technical Difficulties