Well, my website and blog is back up, to Oct 28. I can’t remember if I blogged after that, so I’m guessing that I may have had one or two, or even none, but I can’t remember what they were. If anyone has seen one between Oct 28 and Nov 3 and remembers, let me know and I’ll try to recreate it.
All I know is the web hosting service got hacked , files got deleted and lost thousands of websites. Sadly, vandals don’t always do it in the Real World. Which reminde me of Friday after work. A few of us got a demo of our recently installed security camera system. More than a hundred cameras were installed around campus. The administrator showed us the camera looking over the bike rack. This bike thief comes up with a back pack, puts it on the ground and kneels down beside a beach cruiser. He pulls out a bolt cutter and cuts the cable, but someone walks by, so he hides the cutter. A few secfopnds later he’s back at it, and succeeds in cutting the lock, which goes into the back poack along weith the cutter and away he goes on his stolen bike,. Luckily all of this is captured on video, and his picture is going to be on a rap sheet at the police, emailed out to everyone and posted around our campus.
What was even more incriminating was the tagger who drove up to a sign, got out of the car and scribbled his graffiti on the sign. Then he got in the car, drove away and his license plate number were clearly visible, to give the cops a clear indication of who done it.
So the video surveillance system is already earning its keep, catching thieves and vandals in their act – at night too with the infrared illumination. Santa Ana has a reputation for being a high crime city, but our campus has been relatively free of crime considering its location. We will be even better off now that the surveillance system is working.