It appears that my photo of the sunset is quite worthy of being put on other people's websites! Woo. Maybe I should charge royalties for it!
This thieving gypsy Xanga user has put it on her site. I've been a little less harsh with her than I've been with the other thieves. I've only put my blog address on it. It's a bit of an experiment... will any of her visitors come to my site? Will she remove the photo and find a different one?
The only problem being that if she visits the blog from the link in the image, not only will I have been sent an email about this fact... but she'll also be able read this post, which may/will have a direct effect on the outcome of my social experiment :-)
Only time will tell!
A note to the gypsy... you got a link to your Xanga didn't you? You could at least link back to me :-) Oh, and host the image yourself!
Erm, did me going to the address you've added to the image cause you to be sent an e-mail?
You've made my F5 key very happy today.
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 9:55 PMSo, that alert would be Joe testing me then... :-)
[Oi... you stole my "security code" whilst posting that you'd visited the link!]
Posted by: Ed on May 3, 2005 9:57 PMCan the security code system not cope with two people commenting at the same time then?
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 10:09 PMNow then, I'm confused! I thought the security code was a randomly generated number, so how can you steal someone elses if its randomly generated? :S
Posted by: Russ on May 3, 2005 10:55 PMBecause... it's a... does checking... flying monkeys... sod it, I'll just let Ed explain that one.
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 10:58 PMIt is randomly generated. But only when the page is updated - I didn't write it, I only adapted it.
This means that any two people looking at the same page will see the same number. The person who uses this number first will use it - and the number for the page will change... but the other person won't see this... they'll still see the old code!
That said if you enter a dodge code... it'll let you type in the next code when it tells you you've failed and won't loose any of your text. You'll just assume you've been stupid and can't copy... unlike me, who went back and checked!
Posted by: Ed on May 3, 2005 11:48 PMThat's something like what I was thinking, but coherent :-)
Has lightning-crashes gypsy woman noticed anything amiss yet?
Posted by: joe on May 4, 2005 12:24 AMNope. Not yet... or she's not visited...
I noticed that the caption for the image is "And spend lots of time staring into these:"
There is potential for much mischief here. goatse.cx, for one, although I think that domain is now dead (don't *really* want to go looking....)
Posted by: joe on May 4, 2005 12:38 AMgoatse.cx is indeed dead but many copies exist. I have a feeling that last time I was subjected to that particular example of fine art twas via a link from b3ta.com
The thought strikes me that with some of the other content on her website an image of kitten entrails might possibly be more effective for the purposes of mindless revenge.
Posted by: Al on May 9, 2005 8:53 PM