I finally got fed up with seeing 700-800 hits per day in my site logs generated by hotlinking MySpace asshats siphoning off my precious bandwidth to make their hideously ugly and unusable webpages, so I decided to take action. It took me a while to figure out how to redirect image links within my Gallery2 directories, but a little tutoring in Perl courtesy of Google soon had my images locked up tighter than a duck's ass. The results of my handiwork can be viewed above.

Suck on that bandwidth, you little twits.

Update: I've been informed by at least one person that my no-hotlinking image comes through on their RSS feed. I've specifically exempted Bloglines, Netvibes, and LiveJournal from being blocked, so if you're using a different service to aggregate your RSS feeds, let me know and I'll try to accommodate you.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 1:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (23)

Thanks to everyone who's linked to the Goof in the past week or so. Your patronage is much appreciated. It's been nice seeing all the new referrals coming in that aren't from Google image search. Work has been keeping me super busy lately, but I'll try not to get too far behind on the updates.

bOINGbOING
Bedazzled
Coudal Partners
Everlasting Blort
grow-a-brain
Look At This
Mediaburn
mod*mom
The Nonist
PCL
Peanut Butter Sandwich
Cheeky Tiki

Sorry if I missed anyone.

In other news, Mrs. Bali Hai's birthday was on Thursday. We celebrated by going out for Teppanyaki. I got her a new laptop, and the kids gave her a laptop bag and USB mouse to go with it. Today, I'm cooking her a belated birthday dinner of Jamaican-jerked pork roast, white rice, and Cuban-style frijoles negroes, with a Nigella Lawson chocolate cloud cake and a bottle of 2003 Renwood Amador Ice Zinfandel for dessert.

Adios.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 9:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

YouTube has deleted one of my clips. I knew it was going to happen eventually, but it still astonishes me that the entertainment industry hasn't got a clue that posting a 2-minute clip from a 25-minute show, or a movie trailer, does not pose a threat to their existence. It's free advertising, you dumbasses!

Well, I say a pox on Hollywood lawyers and their cringing lackeys at YouTube. From this point forward, I swear to never again link to, or post another clip there. If they want their site to become nothing more than a pathetic repository of stupid amateur home videos, then so be it.

YouTube, you are dead to me now.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 7:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)