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Dale Franks

There used to be a lot of stuff here. Over the past ten years I've done hundreds of articles, Motorcycle Reviews, Car reviews...all sorts of stuff.

Now it's all gone. The site was done in WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world, and, apparently, the most hacked. My site got hacked, blacklisted by Spam Assassin, and that got my hosting account suspended. WordPress takes hours and hours of security work when hackers find a WordPress installation. The hackers hammer away at it, and you have to hammer away at increasing security. I just didn't have the time to keep up, and the hackers won. So, I had to erase everything.

But that's OK. I rebuilt the site with the Grav CMS, then, later, built my own custom CMS from scratch. Well, to be fair I didn't build it. I just told Google's Antigravity code helper to built it, and it wrote all the code. But I prompted the hell out of it, so I helped.

Of course, a lot of historical content is gone from here. On the other hand, a huge portion of that content is contained in my book, The Joy of Automotion: Musings From a Vehicular Dilettante, so you can go to Amazon and buy it. You should do that right now. And, if you're interested in economics, but don't want to be dry and unreadable, with a bunch of math, check out my first book, Slackernomics: Basic Economics for People Who Think Economics is Boring.

Please check out the Articles page. That's where all the new content will be.