Allocated
The possibility of buying a appartment mentioned in my last post has turned into a reality much more quickly than I anticipated. Unless the sky falls on my head my wife and I will own our own place in around 27 hours. It's weird how fast things can change when the pieces start falling into place... We'll be moving to the new place in roughly a month.
Help, I'm a TV in distress!
A TV emitting an international distress signal? Now that's just weird!
Ignorant Teens Annoy Me
A while back I started noticing weird sites in my referrer headers. A bit of further investigation showed that a bunch of teenage bloggers had used one of my background images in their blog. And I don't mean that they copied the image, they just linked it directly, effectively stealing my bandwidth. Argh.
Needless to say, attempting to request these people to stop doing so didn't work. I ended up having to create a mod_rewrite-based solution which replaces the image with one stating I stole this image from http://max.nma.fi/
. This only happens to offending sites, so I'll probably have to add more sites to the blacklist as the ranks of ignorant little copyright violators increase. It's too bad that most of these kids don't even know that they're doing something wrong. I guess the educational system will catch up in ten years and start telling them...