Why Do I Bother?

We’ll Miss You

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Jeffrey

Pastor Richard F. Benham
Monday, June 02, 2008

A memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 7, 2008, in North Valley Friends Church in Newberg for Pastor Richard Fred Benham, who died May 31 of heart disease at age 62.

Richard Fred Benham was born Dec. 1, 1945, in Portland. He received a master’s degree from George Fox University. He was a pastor of several Friends churches in Oregon and Washington. In 1965, he married Mikell Bolger.

Survivors include his wife; daughter, Maya; sons, Jeff and Chris; sister, Louise Clements; brothers, LeRoy and Martin; and one grandchild.

Arrangements by Attrell’s.

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My New Hobby

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Jeffrey

I’ve taken up knitting as a distraction, and I have become completely obsessed! I’m no longer obsessed with writing however, so I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Here is my third project ever, a scarf for my mother in law.

And here is my 4th project, A hat for ???

And finally a shawl for Mel.

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And Now for Something Completely Different

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Jeffrey

For your enjoyment while you wait for regular content to continue …

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Hackers, Get Your Own Damn Site!

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Jeffrey

Whydoibother.com was hacked!

Seriously, why anyone would bother hacking my site I have no clue. I’m a low traffic site with only a few dedicated (bored?) readers. As far as I can tell the extent of the damage was some links to external sites added to two posts. One of the posts had some code that triggered my antivirus software to warn me. If you have received such a warning after visiting my site I’m sorry. I researched the problem and it looks like the virus my have been a false trigger, but please do a scan if you don’t have active virus protection. The warning I received referred to “downloader”

My site was hacked by someone taking advantage of a vulnerability in the version of WordPress that I had been using. I’ve since upgraded my WordPress installation and the problem should be fixed now. Sorry for any problems that may have been caused in the meantime. If you haven’t visited the site in the last two or three weeks, you were not exposed to any malicious code.

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