Month: September 2007

Meg White Sex Tape

Meg White sex tape fake yet still “news”

Well here’s some sloppy reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), with the SMH website reporting that Meg White, “drummer” of the White Stripes, was the ‘star’ of the latest celebrity sex video doing the rounds. As of writing this, the SMH “Meg White sex video claim” story is the second most viewed story on the SMH website. The story was first … Read More

Hamburglar

How I stopped a bandwidth thief

As you may have read, a few days ago I found that I was having a few issues with bandwidth theft with people hotlinking to images on my automotive blog without permission. I decided I’d have some fun for a couple of days by replacing the hotlinked images with some non-auto related, border line inappropriate, images. Yesterday I decided I’d had enough fun and … Read More

Turning up the heat on the bandwidth thief

Well it’s been over 24 hours since I identified the ‘bandwidth theft‘ occurring on one of my other sites. It was the first time I’d found this happening, so I thought I’d conduct an experiment, firstly, to see what sort of images I could display on the offending site, and secondly, to see how long it would go on for … Read More