Image Theft

Alas, I very nearly became the victim of bandwidth thieves. My monthly provider bill came in, and usage was higher than usual. Checking out the graphs which my provider — er — provides, I noticed that disk usage was the culprit. So after a bit of forensics, I discover that some bright spark was linking to a locally hosted image in a comment they’d made to another blog!

A free cigar if you can guess what this new configuration snippet will do:

Yes, I know that’s bandwidth theft as well, but let’s face it. Lemon Party is a site which I’m sure expects this kind of usage.

Unfortunately, you just caused my RSS feed of your blog to display that image too.

My feed reader is attempting to fetch this URI:

/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/yibbles_happy_hour_144.jpg

What I cannot figure out is WHY my reader wants that file. But I’m getting lemonparty instead. I’d rather not. ;)

Oh blimey… I’ll change it to just do nowt then :)

*sorry* Please go wash your eyes out.

Delete your feed, add it again, and no more lemonparty! Thanks!