You know, I had plans for my evening. Among them were a couple of postings, one here and one on the anime site. But before I dove into that I caught up on a couple of website reads, one of which sent me looking at my own site’s stats and then on the hunt for a way to stop people from hotlinking my image content.

It turns out that a few complete losers on such loser-magnet sites as MySpace and Xanga (I’m not going to dignify their services by linking) found that they could hotlink my gallery content as backgrounds and other incidental images on their own profile pages. This required immediate action. Unfortunately, even with the aid of a snarky image provided by a concerned citizen, the process of locking things down to my satisfaction took almost the entire night. Part of the problem is that Gallery2‘s URL rewrite feature doesn’t provide a way to redirect to a static image. I can block hotlinking there, but I have no control over how it’s done. Imagine my frustration, eh? At least anyone who tries to hotlink content outside of the gallery will be punished appropriately, while in-gallery content will just disappear entirely. That must count for something.

So if you come back tomorrow, maybe there’ll be content worth reading. Right now I just want to at least attempt some relaxation, if not actual decent sleep. Anything’s possible, eh?