Welcome back, fair reader(s).

This site has been offline for a little while thanks to those nasty people who, as far as I can make out, exploited the fact that I thought I knew better than any of the decent anti-virus solutions out there, stole my FTP password, and then modified several files on my webhost to include dodgy <iframe> fragments.  The blog you’re reading now just broke when they did that, as they managed to make one of the crucial PHP files into a PHP file with syntax errors.  A couple of the other sites I host here continued to work and – unbeknownst to me – started to include hidden content from dodgy servers in Russia (judging by the .ru domain name).  Sorry about that.

A short time after this happened, the good guys at Heart Internet disabled my hosting account.  Unfortunately for me, they did this whilst I was away getting wet in the Lake District, and since getting back it’s been enough of a struggle, frankly, to fit sleeping and work into my days, without the added timesink that is de-hacking a website.

I’m all de-hacked and enabled again now though, with a slightly tidier looking hosting account.  I seemed to be accumulating a collection of retired sites which have now been consigned to the great /dev/null in the sky.  Hopefully – hopefully – fretnoise.com will be around for a while without incident, and may even sport some proper entries.

Stranger things have happened.

To get the ball rolling, here’s one of the good photos from our trip to the lakes.  It’s (part of) Castlerigg Stone Circle, just outside Keswick (Google Map).  There is actually a full circle – it was just hard to get a decent picture of more than a few of the stones at a time thanks to all the pesky tourists…

(Click for full size, or here’s an iPhone version)