In an effort to move the rather amusing, yet annoying picture of bang-cock down the page a bit I have decided to write a little something and nothing…
Well, that was it… something and nothing…
Perhaps I should write a new list and review of my must have OS X (Leopard) apps?
Sometimes you spot something that just reminds you of yourself…
… and several of my friends as well. Scary!
Man, what is it with silly pictures of monkeys and numpties who like to hot-link images?
I have just spent the last 2 hours sorting through my inbound links to this site trying to cross-reference genuine incoming inks against stupid hot-links.
Bizarrely, the image that every numskull seems to want to hot-link to is this - a montage of some funny monkey portraits (link to my original post).
Good old .htaccess to the rescue is all I can say. Basically I have used RewriteEngine/RewriteCond as describe here: How do I stop hotlinking and bandwidth theft? Which seems to work perfectly.
If you think you are being hot-linked, check your top inbound links first and check for your images on the site linking to you. If the site is a blog or forum, you may need to check previous pages/posts. If you suspect somebody is using your images on their site, then customising your .htaccess is probably the best solution for blocking them.
Note: I don’t use an alternative image, but the temptation to redirect to a rude alternative is very tempting at times - but that would then lower me to the thieving hot-linkers standards, and to be honest, I am above all that!
Having Alex Kings Twitter Tools installed is great for letting your Twitter followers know when you have posted something new on your site - and in reverse, it is also really useful for making a blog post of your previous days twitterings, but …
… if you do have the “Create a daily digest blog post” turned on like I do, then the pressure to post something everyday really gets turned up to the MAX! As I think there is nothing more unsightly than having two days of Twitter Updates side-by-side! Yep I know I could turn it off or even delete the update posts - but that would be cheating… wouldn’t it?
Anyway, as you can tell - I have struggled to write something today and as a result I have had to write about something that is a bit trivial - mind you - Twitter Tools is cool and worth installing if you don’t have it.
It has been one of those days for me today, I tried to write this morning, but kept finding myself being distracted by other things. When it happens it is damn hard to break out of it. If I catch myself free-falling early enough I can usually do something about it, but today wasn’t one of those times, so I decided to take a break and headed out of the house for the day.
On reflection it was probably the best thing I could have done, as I got thinking about Tumbled (my free Wordpress theme), and I think I should try and make it more Tumbleblog-like with separate styling for each category - links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video being the obvious ones - what do you think? Should I make it more, dare I say it… Web 2.0 ish?
Well, I’m back! Miss me? Don’t answer that… It was fantastic weather in Wales (see above). And the break from the computer gave me some much needed time to think about some projects I have had in the back of my mind since I went travelling in Europe earlier this year. I also finished one book and started another that I had been carrying around for several weeks - so a good rest and catch up.
Right, notes, research and more notes… and strong coffee!!!
#It’s going to be a bit quiet around here for a few days as I’m off to Wales for the Bank holiday.
But before I go, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has shown interest in my first free Wordpress theme called Tumbled. It was downloaded over 40 times in the first day, and as many again after I released the update yesterday evening. Amazing!
Right, the camper van is loaded up, so it is time to hit the road… now where is that nice sunny weather we were supposed to be having today?
