Antisocial

I've had this issue lately with random whoevers linking directly to images on my site, which wouldn't bother me quite so much if they'd at least hyperlink back to me, but alas chivalry and common courtesy are dead (or dying) in the internet age. Or worse, people just up and snagging whatever they want for whatever they want it for. I'm all about sharing and even espouse a bit of the 'not locking the door to the house because we trust the neighbors' kind of thing, but it's all starting to annoy me. I guess I'm becoming antisocial in my old age...

Google is on my hit list as well since they seem to feed the most thieving kind of traffic - something for which I'd ordinarily be grateful (minus the thieving part).

So, my brilliant darling has devised a fabulously bratty plan, and now everyone in every forum, web page, and whatnot that has linked directly to an image on my site will see not what was intended but this little number sticking his tongue out:



Now if only I could do something about the websites that serve as nothing short of a diaper for web gunk, publishing a random mess of congealed hodge-podge information - via RSS feed. All of it not-quite-stolen but certainly not having asked permission. However, it's late and we've real work to do tomorrow (as usual), so my Trojan horses will just have to wait.