So this is what happened...

I noticed a bunch of referrals from a French-language heavy metal discussion forum.  The hits weren't really referrals, they were just hits to a graphic I had uploaded here at Eponym and which I've since reloaded at Photobucket, re-editing my old post so that it still displays correctly:



The topic of this particular thread on the forum was "what are you listening to right now?" (thanks Babelfish).

So from now on, whenever someone views this thread, "Ganash" is apparently going to be listening to this:



BWA HA HA ha ha ha...

The thread can be viewed here.  (Using tinyurl just as a cheap & dirty way to disguise my referral link).

Big news in the Fincher case, via The War on Guns and Claire Wolfe.

More at nwaonline.

UPDATE:  The judge has changed his mind.

It looks to me like someone had a little behind-the-scene chat with the judge, probably involving endings of careers and/or broken kneecaps.

I'm sorry for the lack of any real posting lately, but I'm still taking the semi-break that I started last week.  Also I'm going through a busy period at work and I don't feel much like doing blogging-type stuff when I get home.

I'll get something new up this weekend, probably.  MLK Day is being forecasted as quite cold.  I think I'll have to make a pot of chili.

Eponym has a switch I can throw to stop other sites from hotlinking my graphics.  I used it for a while but it also stops Bloglines from displaying the graphics, so I turned it off.

It doesn't happen very often, but when it does it's very annoying.  It's always some picture that they could have found in about six million other places but picked my bandwidth to crash.

So I always delete the graphic and usually reload it at photobucket.

But I'm wondering...would it also be appropriate to replace the graphic with something the hotlinker might find offensive just to mess with them?  It would still cost me some bandwidth, but it might be worth it just to screw with them.