Had an interesting experience today. Thought I’d squiz through a few of my old blogs and lo and behold but half the pictures had changed. Instead of the ones I’d put there, for posts like ‘Knocked Up’, a book cover and several pictures that related to my posts, there were landscapes, some guy after his fishing expedition, and someone’s girlfriend in a state of undress. Obviously I’ve deleted them now (with a fair amount of muttering I might add) but how does this happen?
I’m figuring, that since I cut and pasted those photos in after doing an image search on google, that someone was either able to tamper with the blog or the photo links just changed at their source. The pics that I put up that I’ve uploaded from my own computer remained the same so I’m hoping it was the latter, that the links had changed, but all the same I was a bit annoyed and surprised to see the altered posts. I hope no-one was offended by any of the incorrect/changed pictures, and I’ll certainly be keeping a check on things in future.
It is generally bad net etiquette to post pictures by linking to another server. You are serving the more bandwidth intensive portions of your blog on someone else\’s dime. If you copy the image, and host it locally, this will never happen.
Comment by Joe — 7 December, 2007 @ 7:49 pm
Thanks, Joe, I live and learn every day!
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 8 December, 2007 @ 9:41 pm