I just discovered that one of the image links on an old post on my blog had been unpleasantly changed to… well… let’s just say, something not family friendly. After experiencing shock and embarrassment, I promptly nuked the foul post. I then proceeded to check all my other posts to make sure nothing else had decided to unexpectedly change. Good thing is that I only did direct image links a couple of times.
Lesson of the day: Do not create image links unless you know for certain that they won’t magically change into something nasty. :^C
I guess the part that pisses me off the most about the whole thing is that I did know better. I guess that serves me right for being lazy. ::sigh:: C’est la vie. On the positive side, it did get me to go back and clean up some broken links. So, I guess it wasn’t all bad.
I’ve heard of people changing images on their servers to combat hotlinking, and that may be what you’d run into. As a general rule, unless I’m linking to the cover of a book (such as on Amazon) I prefer to upload a copy of the image to my own server. That way I can be sure the image will be there for future use and I’m not hotlinking to someone who may not appreciate me nibbling away at their allotted bandwidth.
yeah, I was just lazy. I knew better but I still did it anyway and got burned. blah.