Cigarettes? iPads? What in the world is Lyssa up to?

by Lyssa Adkins on February 22, 2012

Nothing!  I swear!

We are battling someone (or some hacker program) that gets into the blog and saves unwanted blog posts.  Sorry that you have been the recipient of these.  As soon as one of these nasty blog posts appears, one of you tells us, or we notice it ourselves and we KILL the user and all its blog posts.  So, it no longer appears on the site, but still goes out through the RSS feed.  And, then, another one appears a few days or two weeks later.  We have been fighting this for some time now.  If you have any experience and know how this is happening (or how to stop it), please do share!  In the meantime, please accept my apologies.

I am preparing a new – real – blog post right now and will have that out tomorrow. And, for those of you who don’t know, I also blog at the Agile Coaching Institute, so you can catch me there.

 

 

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