There is No Knitting Content Here

Well, sort of.

For the first time in a long time, I looked at the web logs for my houseofcritters.org domain. I happen to put all my image/media files that I manually upload on that domain. It’s really just a matter of semantics - knittergail and houseofcritters are hosted on the same server. In any case, I realized that the myspace folks had been hotlinking to various images. Like my 3rd grade picture. I have no idea what is up with that. I don’t really care about the bandwidth (I have more than any reasonable person ever will need, even with my podcast, because Dreamhost rocks.)
In any case, using the handy tools that Dreamhost provides (my hosting provider), I set it up so that only select domains could hotlink. I don’t think this will effect anyone reading this blog - most of the images these days go through my gallery, and I’ve allowed livejournal and bloglines to hotlink. If you read my blog via an RSS feed, and notice that images no longer load for you, please leave me a comment along with where you are reading the RSS feed, and I’ll add it to the allowed list.

If you didn’t understand any of the above, don’t worry about it. :)

In honor new image fun, I shall now post completely non-knitting related pictures. Aimee the Sis recently sent me pictures of her new Lawyer Office. Her office rocks. I happened to send her a great picture of a Prarie Dog the day before she got her first Real Live Lawyer Job, and she put it up!

She also sent me a picture of her desk and the view, which on a non-blizzard day, would include mountains! She works in Denver.

In contrast, I took a new picture of the awesomeness that is my… cube.

First, please notice the 3 computers.  I win the “Total Number of Computers in a Cube” award.   Second, notice that I have a terrorist protection squad - Aimee does not. Third, notice my totally awesome Elizabeth Austen (mispelled in the picture, doh!) bag, which I bought at Tuesday Morning for 50% off.  Its even in my favorite fabric pattern.

Hee.  Anyways, I’m totally jealous of Aimee’s office.

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4 Responses to “There is No Knitting Content Here”

  1. lucia Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 10:35 am

    I also block hotlinking from most sites for the same reason. I want to control how my images might be displayed from my site. I basically permit hotlinking if the hotlinking is convenient for me. So, I permit google because sometimes people search jpgs on tags words like “knitting” or some such thing and arrive at my site. I also permit hotlinking by knitting forums where I post, (including my own.)

    Blocking through htaccess (which is what dreamhost is doing) beats the heck out of posting words begging people not to hotlink.

    Because some sites habitualy frame others in a way I consider inappropriate, I also inserted some javascript to prevent framing.

  2. Aimee the sis Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pm

    You shouldn’t be jelious since you have three computers (why?) and the terrorist protection squad.

    All I have are boxes and boxes of files to hide behind if a gunner comes.

  3. Dee Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    Nice digs and a beauty of a bag too!

  4. Dee Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 3:34 pm

    BTW I want an arrow pointing to where stinky sits and that other strange guy too.

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