John McCain’s MySpace Page gets pranked for hotlinking.

Via Malkin.

Hotlinking is evil, immoral, and fattening.  Doing this kind of thing to hotlinkers has become one of my minor hobbies.

Some are saying that his myspace page was "hacked."  It was not hacked.  He was linking to a graphic hosted on another site which he did not have permission to link to.  Therefore, he was stealing bandwidth.  This is hotlinking.  The graphic was replaced with a different graphic that was given the same name.  All action took place on the other site that he was improperly linked to.  Nothing happened to his own site, so it is not "hacking."

This is the proper way to deal with bandwidth thieves.

As usual, I'll be going offline due to bandwidth.  I'm just right on the edge of the package I'm paying for, and it would be such a large increase in price to step up to the next level that I don't think it would be worth it.

There's a problem with the way IE displays individual post pages for this blog, so that they are essentially not readable.  I don't know why.  The main page displays correctly under IE, and both main and post pages display correctly with Firefox and Opera.

Until I can figure out how to fix it, the only suggestion I have is to view the main page to read posts.

It appears that, for some reason, a huge space has suddenly been inserted between the center and right columns under IE.  I haven't done anything to my template lately, other than to add a few self-contained sidebar components.  I removed them temporarily just to be sure, and it made no difference.  I also reset the base template back to default, which also made no difference.  This isn't the first time I've had to kluge around with stuff just to get it to display correctly in IE, and I'm getting kind of tired of it.

UPDATE:  The problem is with the blockquote style that I put in, but I made that change about a month ago and only now it's causing a problem?  That's just nuts.

UPDATE 2:  Okay, I think it's fixed, and I still kept the different blockquote style.  Once again this fix was only by instinct and I have no idea why the change I made fixed the problem.

I think this is going to work.

UPDATE:  As a service for others on Eponym who want to use ScribeFire, yes you can.  Just google "scribefire eponym api" or something like that and you will find what you need.

The computer rejuvenation went very well.  The actual restore took only about 10 minutes, but then getting everything transferred back took over 2 hours.  It's zipping along right now just fine.

I was going to try the Opera browser, but when I started trying to make this post I got a warning that it was incompatible with Eponym's RTF blog poster.  So I'll have to go back to Firefox.

Does anyone have any theories as to why this blog received 110 hits yesterday from the Blogger main page (www.blogger.com)?

Because I'm stumped.

Lighter than usual because I keep going over preparations for the impending computer rejuvenation.  I plan on starting Saturday morning, or maybe Friday night.  I think I might download a couple more installation files today, so I won't have to go download them afterward.

Meanwhile, be sure and read Why We Do It at Shooting the Messenger:

But it's far easier to rally around a great man than to go it alone. There is no Ronald Reagan to follow to and past the gates of hell, no Washington or Jefferson to invigorate our spirits when the going gets tough. And that is where the Founders had it all over us. They were surrounded by other great men to share the load, and we, we have Julie Annie. This doesn't mean our battle is destined to end in failure and disgrace, but what it does mean is that each and every one of us must find some measure of the great man within so that the sum of the parts is equal to the task.

Got a hit for the search, "eye injury with public restroom coat hooks."

I can't think of a way one could do that, but it's still funny.

I'm #2 on the list of links.

No trackback spam last night.