hacked!

what a week! i find, thanks to my parents, that this site was hacked at some point due to a wretched server issue that has thankfully been resolved promptly by the guys at my hosting service. i finally got all the index pages replaced, and i hope they all work. if you see a hacked page, please let me know by clicking the "contact webmaster" link on the left side of the page.

on a lighter note, mum and i made it at last back on the water after about 5 months. happy easter! almost everybody is off at a church, and mum and i are enjoying the beautiful sunny day on the river about ten miles upstream from the bay. it was wonderful, and i'm nicely toasted (read: burnt).

and now to leave you with a quote to make you think about the state of the country.

i see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.

- abraham lincoln, 1864