If you are one of the people who was rather rudely disconnected from my blog a few minutes ago, my apologies.
It seems some (insert your selection of choice profanities here) jerk with a high-traffic web site out there liked one of my photos — and he or she decided to link directly to the photo on my site, rather than host it themselves. The enormous burst of web traffic that resulted completely crippled my blog server.
If the above was gobbledegook to you (because you’re not a geek), here’s an analogy: it’s as if a business down the street from your home decided that it would rather not pay for all that electricity they need to run their huge machinery. Instead, they ran a great big fat wire over to your house, and tapped into the electricity that you’re paying for. That’s what this jerk just did to me.
I’ve fixed the problem by removing the photo.
People. Can’t live with 'em, can’t live without (some of) 'em.
Or, as one of my favorite bloggers might say: Rope. Tree. Some assembly required.
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