For those of you paying attention, I am almost at my wit’s end. I have been sitting at my keyboard writing what could generously be described as “articles” on what it means to be an architect, and in a somewhat lesser capacity, pulling the curtain back on the process of working with an architect since January […]

For those of you paying attention, I am almost at my wit’s end. I have been sitting at my keyboard writing what could generously be described as “articles” on what it means to be an architect, and in a somewhat lesser capacity, pulling the curtain back on the process of working with an architect since January 10th, 2010. It’s hard to believe but this is the 817th article I’ve written since “Who Wants to be Relevant"” my very first article … you would have thought that I’d be better at this by now. But I’ve just about had enough … 486,712 worth of enough.

This site, the one that I have painstakingly built and showered with blood, sweat, and tears, has been under almost constant attack for the past year. I couldn’t tell you why I have been singled out – maybe it’s karma – or maybe it’s just bad luck. Whatever it is, I am about to give up and throw in the towel. The image above is a screen capture of the IP addresses from just the past 7 days that have tried to brute force their way into my site. Even though this is a list of just 7,961 blocke...