Hotlinking – Amusing
Well this is amusing. I go and make my blog all pretty again, prune the content and remove all the cruft from past entries – in the process, I lose all my hits, counters, etc. Not that it matters to me anymore. In fact it’s kind of nice seeing the hits start to rise again like a phoenix from the ashes. Soar to new heights. You know, from all five of you.
Then I see the links start rolling in! Excitement! People are linking here once again! What an amazing turn of events! And then I take a closer look. It’s a Russian link farm, taking all the posts from my RSS feed and reposting them in whole to their spam site. Even worse, they’re hotlinking to the photos on this server, and I haven’t setup the proper protection.
So I dredged up this photo gem from the recesses of the server, and I’ll see if the Russia-Bots link to it. If so, I’ll screenshot their site, and repost it here, in continuous meta-references, until the bot explodes or a black hole opens up and swallows us all whole.
Ok, that
Hotlink Metasnap
Maybe one more after this.