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.




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February 2, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Tyler
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. ;)
February 2, 2008 at 6:14 pm
yibble
Oh blimey… I’ll change it to just do nowt then :)
*sorry* Please go wash your eyes out.
February 5, 2008 at 6:55 am
Tyler
Delete your feed, add it again, and no more lemonparty! Thanks!