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Reports have been coming in from all over the world, about brute-force attacks on WordPress sites.  Our blog is one of them.  Since 21:12, May 16, 2013, our blog has experienced more than 400 attempts to gain control in a 24 hour period.  If you have a WordPress powered site, you need to take strong measures to protect your site!

UPDATE: May 24, 2013: We’ve had another 288 attempts to hack our blog this morning between 07:30 and 11:00.  Wordpress site owners, beware!

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UPDATE: I’ve decided to edit out the URLs, and allow the spam comments on this article, for the sheer amusement of our readers.  So, feel free to make some snide comments of your own!

Like many blogs these days, our blog gets plenty of spam comments.  Fortunately, our anti-spam measures are formidable and very rarely does a spam comment actually make it through the defenses and into the comments section.  But all these spam comments are saved for review, so even though you, the Reader doesn’t see them, I do.  I thought I would show you what some of the stupidest comments look like.

Yes, you’re right – I did laugh when I read this, because you just wasted your time trying to post this on our blog.  Why don’t you try actually fixing your SEO instead of spamming people?

Yes, we do have a Facebook page.  The reason you couldn’t find it is because you looked on Twitter for it.  Does your Mommy know you’re using her computer?

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Hui-chen and I have been very busy lately but you can follow what’s going on by checking the Events page on the blog for public events.  For example, I’m playing with my partner Van at the Wild West, on Friday and Saturday of this coming weekend.  Hope to see you there!

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Photos by MJ Klein

We had another grill party get-together this weekend, to say goodbye to long time Taiwan blogger, Jim Boyden, aka Sponge Bear, aka Kaminoge, aka A Curmudgeon Abroad.  Jim and his family are leaving Taiwan rather suddenly because of an unexpected job offer in the USA.  The truth is, I’ve never met Jim before (even though we’ve both been here for some time) and I didn’t want him to leave without meeting at least once.  Our friend Michael Turton drove up with Jim and we met at Xiao-hui’s place for some grilled fare.

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It seems like it was yesterday when we were talking about the 5th anniversary of TheNHBushman.com, but now it’s been six years since we started!

Hui-chen and I would like to thank all of our loyal readers who have stuck by us and faithfully read our articles about our personal travels and experiences.  This website would be nothing worthwhile at all without your readership and especially your participation in the comments sections.  We’ve very much enjoyed sharing our travels with you and we hope to bring you much more in the future!

Thank you all!

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We are happy to announce that Google Inc. has signed a deal to purchase our blog for an undisclosed amount.  Google has hired Hui-chen and I as a writing team for the blog, so the content will be the same as always!  Google, who owns Blogger, has embarked on a new project, aimed at preserving the last remaining personal blogs in existence, and since Hui-chen and I blog on our own life travels and experiences, we are on their list of blogs to preserve.

“These days, the blogosphere is clogged with a myraid of copied and re-post content blogs.  Bushman’s blog is unique because it’s a window into the lives of 2 real people who are running their own business and traveling to exotic destinations and writing about it, but they don’t try to come off as experts on anything, and they’re not promoting an agenda” said Sonya Belanger, spokesperson for Google, and the person in charge of the personal blog preservation project.  ”Their blog has an intimate and personal feel to it.  That’s refreshing.”

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Google!

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Dear Readers,

It’s that time again – time to vote for your favorite blog in the 2010 Taiwan Best Blog Awards! We’ve done well in the past 2 years and we thank you for that. This year it’s just as easy to vote. You can click on the icon on the right hand column to go to the voting page. You may vote once per day, per IP (location).

Thanks for your votes!

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Hui-chen and I have entered a Facebook photo contest that is open to residents of Asia.

We would appreciate it if our readers who use Facebook would vote for our photograph in the contest.

Please click on this link and click the Vote Now button on the top right of the photograph.

You may vote once per day so please don’t feel shy about voting every day! Hui-chen and I thank you!

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Photo by Hui-chen

We’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to the USA!  We’re ready to bring you the story of where we went, what we did, what we saw and what we ate!  But before we get into the first installment of our trip I want to ask our readers for their opinion of how we should format the articles.

Bushman Meets Mike01905 in Lynn, Massachusetts

In our last trip series, we brought you the food experiences last, in separate articles at the end of the series.  Dear Readers, how should we present the food experiences this time?  Do you like the separate articles at the end, or do you want to see what we ate along the way, in chronological order (as best as we an accomplish that)?  Let us know and we’ll get into this brand new series with a bang!

Thanks for reading everyone!

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This is a little blurb between articles, just to announce that our blog is five years old today! It’s been a fantastic journey through exotic lands, amazing cuisine and interesting and fun destinations! We hope you’ll browse through the archives and relive some of those memories with us, while we look forward to another five years with you!

Thanks to all our loyal readers!

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