Oom Dana Niehaus het TO Honiball se Jakkals en Wolf lewend gemaak soos ek altyd gestaar het na die plaat se omslag terwyl die storie draai op die platespeler. Oom Kaspaas het ook gereeld sy buiging gemaak en die plate wat ons nie besit het nie, het ons by die biblioteek uitgeneem.

Lyk my ek is ‘n regte geek soos Sheldon, Leonard, Howard en Raj van Big Bang Theory wat van comics hou; die verskil is net ek hou meer daarvan in Afrikaans. Mag die Afrikaanse strokiesprent nooit uitsterf (soos Bollie verander is na Bobo) nie!

Kyk ‘n paar Afrikaanse kinderstories op YouTube.

Hier is strokies soos geteken deur Honiball:

Who owes who how much?!

Bakkies Botha bel nie die verkeerde nommer nie, jy antwoord die verkeerde foon

Bakkies Botha has already been to Mars; that’s why there are no signs of life.

Bakkies Botha doesn’t flush the toilet, he scares the sh*t out of it

Bakkies Botha can strangle you with a cordless phone.

Death once had a near-Bakkies Botha experience

Bakkies Botha can slam a revolving door.

Bakkies Botha doesn’t need a GPS. Bakkies Botha decides where he is.

The sheep on Bakkies Botha’ farm are the ones that give us steel wool.

Bakkies Botha will never have a heart attack. His heart isn’t nearly foolish enough to attack him.

Bakkies Botha can speak Braille.

When Bakkies Botha throws a boomerang it doesn’t dare come back

Bakkies Botha does not fart, nothing escapes Bakkies Botha

Some kids pee their name in snow. Bakkies Botha pees his name in concrete.

Bakkies Botha can tweet from a pay phone

Toe Alexander Graham Bell die foon ontwerp het, was daar reeds 3 missed calls van Bakkies Botha af

The Vredefort dome was not created by a meteorite, Bakkies Botha decided to put his foot down

Die enigste tyd wat Bakkies rustig raak is as Riaan die nuus lees om 7

Wanneer Bakkies melk op sy rice crispies gooi, bly hulle tjoep f*kken stil

Die eerste ding wat Bakkies doen wanneer hy by die see aankom, is om twee lengtes te swem

Bakkies Botha was sy 4 x 4 met Chuck Norris se “hairpiece ‘

As die weerlig slaan, slaan Bakkies Botha terug

As ‘n reenbui val tel Bakkies Botha hom op

When asked what consumers want from brands, knowledge and entertainment soared to the top of the list. Additionally, The GlobalWebIndex Wave 5 Trends report tells us that online consumers want brands to provide services that fit with their lifestyle. They also want brands to listen to them.
What can we learn of this?

1) Businesses must first realize that there’s more to social media than just managing an active presence, driven by an active editorial calendar. Listening is key and within each conversation lies a clue to earn relevance and ultimately establish leadership.

2) Consumers want to be heard. Social media will have to break free form the grips of marketing in order to truly socialize the enterprise to listen, engage, learn, and adapt. You can’t create a social business if the business is not designed to be customer-centric from the outside-in and the inside-out.

3) Social media becomes an extension of active listening and engagement. Strategies, programs, and content are derivative of insights, catalysts for innovation, and messengers of value. More importantly, social media becomes a platform for the brand and the functions that consumers deem mandatory. From marketing to HR to service to R&D, brands will expand the role they play in social networking to make the acts of following and sharing an investment in a more meaningful relationship.

Conan O’Brien Crashes Car Full of Explosives from itsed on Vimeo.

So you’ve carefully installed WordPress, you’ve made it look exactly how you like with a decent theme, you’ve maybe installed some fancy plugins and you’ve crafted some fine posts and Pages. In short, you’ve put a lot of time and effort into your site.

Then, one day, you load up your site in your browser, and find that it’s not there, or it redirects to a porn site, or your site is full of adverts for performance-enhancing drugs. What do you do?

Some steps to take

Stay Calm

You have to stay calm to be able to deal with this situation. The first step before you respond to any security incident is to calm yourself down to make sure you do not commit any mistakes. We are serious about it.

Scan your local machine.

Sometimes the malware was introduced through a compromised desktop system. Make sure you run a full anti-virus/malware scan on your local machine. Some viruses are good at detecting AV software and hiding from them. So maybe try a different one. This advice generally only applies to Windows systems. If you do not have any AV software installed on your computer, you could use ClamAV for Windows-based PCs or ClamXav for Macs. ClamAV is also available for Linux and BSD systems.

Check with your hosting provider.

The hack may have affected more than just your site, especially if you are using shared hosting. It is worth checking with your hosting provider in case they are taking steps or need to. Your hosting provider might also be able to confirm if a hack is an actual hack or a loss of service, for example.

Change your passwords.

Change passwords for the blog users, your FTP and MySQL users.

Change your secret keys.

If they stole your password and are logged in to your blog, even if you change your password they will remain logged in. How? because their cookies are still valid. To disable them, you have to create a new set of secret keys. Visit the WordPress key generator to obtain a new random set of keys, then overwrite the values in your wp-config.php file with the new ones.

Take a backup of what you have left.

If your files and database are still there, consider backing them up so that you can investigate them later at leisure, or restore to them if your cleaning attempt fails. Be sure to label them as the hacked site backup, though…

Read some good blog posts on what to do.

Donncha wrote a good article on what to do if you suspect a hack, it is well worth reading through and acting on, as it goes into more depth than this page. You can also read How to clean your hacked install and Removing malware from a WordPress blog which explain in details some steps you might need to take.

Check your .htaccess file for hacks.

Hackers can use your .htaccess to redirect to malicious sites from your URL.

Consider deleting everything.

A sure way to remove hacks that currently exist, is to delete all the files from your web space, and clear out your WordPress database. Of course, if you do this, you would need backups to restore from, so …

Consider restoring a backup

If you restore from a known clean backup of your WordPress Database, and re-upload your backed up WordPress plugin and theme files through FTP or SFTP, that will ensure that all those bits are clean of malicious code are gone. At the very least …

Replace the core WordPress files with ones from a freshly downloaded zip.

Replacing all your core files will ensure that they are no longer left in a hacked state. If you didn’t already restore backup copies of your plugin and theme files, replace them too.

Upgrade!

Once you are clean, you should upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest software. Older versions are more prone to hacks than newer versions.

Change the passwords again!

Remember, you need to change the passwords for your site after making sure your site is clean. So if you only changed them when you discovered the hack, change them again now.

Secure your site

Now that you have successfully recovered your site, secure it by implementing some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

Do a post-mortem.

Once your site is secured, check your site logs to see if you can discover how the hack took place. Open source tools like OSSEC can analyze your logs and point to where/how the attack happened.

Keep regular backups

Now that the nightmare is over, start keeping regular backups of your database and files. If this ever happens again, all you will need to do is restore from the last know clean backup and change your passwords and secret keys.

Other Resources

• How to Cope with a Hacked Site (OttoPress)

Eugene Marais (1871 – 1936)

O koud is die windjie
en skraal.
En blink in die dof-lig
en kaal,
So wyd as die Heer se genade,
Lê die velde in sterlig en skade.
En hoog in die rande,
Versprei in die brande,
Is die grassaad aan roere
Soos winkende hande.

O treurig op wysie
op die ooswind se maat,
Soos die lied van ‘n meisie
in haar liefde verlaat.
In elk’ grashalm se vou
blink ‘n druppel van dou,
en vinnig verbleek dit
tot ryp in die kou!

• #eendagasekgrootis – drome vir die toekoms
• #bloudraad – doen-dit-self ervarings
• #lanklaasgehoor – Afrikaanse idiome of uitdrukkings wat ek lanklaas gehoor of gebruik het
• #Afrikaans – Afrikaanse idiome of uitdrukkings wat my laat glimlag

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