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March 10, 2006
Image Etiquette
I had to slap the guy hosting the "Alternate Energy Blog" on the wrist this morning. He was freeloading my bandwidth by linking to an image on my server. The solution? Simple... rename a different file with the same name!! The result is pretty sweet! Now he has a picture of my daughter on his site with a caption: "This guy is stealing my bandwidth. Please visit http://harrisreynolds.net/blog/" SWEET!!! I am not sure how long it will be until he notices it and changes the link, but in the meantime you can enjoy the result via the image below.
James... you have been a naughty boy! Don't just randomly link to other people's images; copy the image, assuming it is in the public domain, to your own server. Oh... and James... thanks for the free advertising!! :-)
Click here to see the picture!
Posted by harris at March 10, 2006 10:43 AM
Comments
Hi Harris,
Glad you enjoyed the free advertising.
Hope everyone enjoyed the cute pictures of your daughter.
I don't "randomly" link to other people's pictures. Rather I use Google's image search (who are also stealing your bandwidth btw). I found it as a result of a search for "mixed signals".
In response to your points
a) I'm not very technically proficient (i.e. I haven't figured out to host images properly on blogger yet). Okay... I'm lazy.
b) It's very hard (and time consuming) to determine whether an image as public domain.
c) On the upside at least it was a picture of your baby, not a pornographic image. That might have given some of the schoolchildren who visit my blog a shock.
Regards,
James
Alternative Energy Blog
Posted by: Alternative Energy Blog at March 10, 2006 11:45 PM