Hello, my sweet feed-readers.
I had slapped up a post in haste last night, but was not excited about it. After getting ready for bed I sent it back to draft form and hoped it had not hit anyone’s feed yet. It had. I got a few emails this morning asking what happened, so here’s the short story before I post the photos I was planning to.
Last night I was sitting here editing photos and tweaking my site (Woo! Hot Friday night!) (Thanks to witchypoo for her coding genius – check out my menu bars).
I saw a new incoming link! I went to see who linked to me! Does this sound familiar?
It was some dude hotlinking the nasty photo of me from this post (pre-watermarking) to illustrate the ugliness of the eighties. Nice.
This is the photo I replaced it with.
My original post had the screen shots, but I opted to leave them out for a number of reasons.
As fun as it is to switch it up on people, HOTLINKING IS BAD. Watermark your photos.
Please?
Onwards!
Yesterday was a milder day. Not spring, by any means, but it was above freezing. The sun was brightly shining. You could hear the drip, drip, drip of melting snow. I would not even hesitate to call it a beautiful day.
I am trying to be more positive about winter. It helps that I am going to MEXICO soon. That makes this blasted season more bearable.
After Emily’s nap, Honey suggested that we all head outside for some fresh air. Swinging on the swings and playing in the sandbox are still not feasible activities so we opted to just walk around the yard.
Daddy and his girl. I never tire of watching the two of them.
Does she not look adorable walking in her Big Girl Boots?
Here is everyone looking down at road. And throwing snow at passing cars. We’re good neighbours like that.
We live on a bench…half way up a…hill? Mountain? I’m not sure. We are definitely not in the prairies, that is for sure.
The dudes had fun running down our driveway.
I use the term “driveway” loosely. It is more like a country road.
That is one of the rare moments that Nathan stood still. The guy RUNS everywhere. Sometimes into traffic. It’s awesome.
See? Running.
The wind picked up so we headed back to the house. I snapped a shot of Honey’s work shop. He asked me to tell you to tell your husbands that it has 220 power.
That’s the chicken coop to the right. Yes, we have chickens.
One last shot of Daddy and his girl.
Sigh.
Have a great weekend everyone! Are you doing anything interesting?
NO! NOTHING INTERESTING! Unless painting door jambs and getting groceries is interesting. At least Ben gets to go to a party.
BAH! Everyone is on holidays and it’s not fair…..
poor poor me…….
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YAY…first comment!!!!! AND second!
christy’s last blog post..Warm Summer Evening
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I am working on the watermarking thingy but the headache is getting worse. My weekend will be spent reviewing tasks (ugh!) but I know you won’t feel too sorry for me!
I am refreshed from our trip and you will be too! VERY SOON!
Yay for winter holidays
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Love the pictures of Emily and her Daddy. There’s just nothing sweeter than a little one with their Dad.
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I was showing Noah the picture of you in grade nine baby, and the was like “woah … uhhh” … and then showed him the one you replaced it with. He said, “I wouldn’t kick her out of bed” which is to say that he thinks you look a lot better now. He’s kind of a dork in his lingo.
I have a reader and didn’t get the last post … maybe becasue I didn’t open it until after you unpublished it? Not sure. That’s the scary thing about readers – if you make a mistake, you can’t change it! Not like I’ve ever done that …
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I just signed up to Picnik. Super quick and easy to use to watermark photos. Thanks for all the helpful hints. Great pictures as always
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I’m sick so I get to stay in, but I plan to watch chick flicks on the couch with a bowl of popcorn.
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I get to do homework! Hurrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaayyyyy!
PS-What’s with people being all jerky and thiefing your pictures lately? MEANIES!
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I signed up for picnik too…freakin awesome!
kinda funny it happened to you again…you should feel special, people love your pics enough to steal them
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I meant to say this the last time someone stole your photo….WTF
now seriosuly, why? Don’t get it, but love that you are not letting them get away with it, good on you!!!!
Jude
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I’m working on my on-line photography class stuff, trying to catch up on my blog reading and trying to get rid of this darned headache I’ve had for at least a day!!!!
Cute pics of your hubby and Emily.
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I had intended on watermarking all my pictures this weekend, but since I’m sick, that’s going to have to wait until later. I’m having a hard time concentrating on anything longer than a few minutes.
So, I’m spending my weekend alternating between the bed and the couch, and resting as much as possible. I’ll probably watch some movies and enjoy the rest.
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Another photo stolen! I like how you solved the problem though!
I laughed when I read the part about the workshop, then I told my hubby what I was laughing at, he is jealous. I told him one day he would have one too.
Pictures of Daddies and their little girls are always so cute.
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Your snow pictures are awesome!
But I don’t know how to watermark (I don’t have photoshop or nothin) or know if someone was hotlinking and I feel like such a dorky non-dork. Know what I mean?
Oh, and I have a non-date this weekend. *gulp*
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I forgot to mention how cute your photos are. AND how hot you look in your photo theif replacement photo. Go you.
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I’m 100% sure that the replacement photo told him just the right amount of “Suck it!” Well done!
As far as my weekend? I might re-arrange the pen drawer or drink a bottle of wine through a straw. Oh, and there are those bills to be paid. I wonder if I have a straw.
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OKay- what in the world is hot linking and how do you know if someone has done it?
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maybe I will just re read the wikipedia article again. PS- We were up at jolanda’s helping with the painting and I have to say, you live in a beautiful area!
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Weekend plans included shopping for a new washer and dryer (yippee!!!) and desk, and getting the oil changed and tires rotated on hubby’s car, plus house cleaning, dinner out, bowling, and church on Sunday….just your normal weekend….
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I love your vigilante justice.
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That looks great!
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Way to go Angella!!!!!!!! I love that picture of you and your comment was perfect! Have they apologized yet?!?
Love the pictures – looks like a fun time! You’ve got such a beautiful yard to just walk around in.
Have a great weekend!
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You crack me up. You don’t just get revenge, you get very sweet, highly amusing revenge.
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great photo/idea… I hope I never encounter this problem, but if I do, I’ll know WHAT to do…
thanks for your tips!
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I’ve been accused of being (more than) a little paranoid more than once in my life so you can take my concern with a grain of salt. I’m not sure you should put your last name on your photos. You’re pretty easy to find out about online (ever google your own name?) and I’d hate to see some whacko know too much about you. I don’t think I knew what your last name was prior to your watermarking. As far as professionals stealing your photos…if they really want them, they’ll get them. This was the response I got from my hubby when I brought up the subject of having him watermark his. He says anyone who knows photoshop can get rid of them. My last paranoid warning is to not tell us when you go on vacation:). Maybe living in fear mongering America has gotten to me.
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Is there free software for batch watermarking, that you can recommend?
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I’m organizing my attic.
Then I’m tri-folding all my panties.
Then, I’m going to pull out “The Beginner’s Guide to Macrame” and make a hanging pot holder for my ivy.
I’m a very busy girl – very busy indeed.
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“Hotlinks Buster” could be the name of a new business
Love the photo of the boys running down the driveway.
MK
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I should probably know this answer, but I don’t so I’m asking. How do you know that someone is linking to you? Very curious…
I’d love see where you guys live one day. Looks great!
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I went to the thief’s site, and all of the photos on that post were hotlinked. All of them. There was one comment on the site that said hotlinking was bad form. And it said Tsk.
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Go back to the thief’s site and you will see that he has removed most of the hotlinked images, plus the comment that chastised him for hotlinking. There are still a few hotlinked images, but I would love to see what the others changed their original images to.
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I’m SO glad you said that you had posted, and then removed the post.
I had linked on to your site, and was reading away. I hit a button and suddenly the post was gone! I had a black cloud of guilt hovering over my head for a while, thinking I’d done something wild and horrid to poof everything away. Aaaak!
*wiping sweat off the brow here*
Sanity restored – for a little while, at least.
As for the weekend – we had kiddie soccer games galore today. And tomorrow… scary house cleaning. Yes, it’s that time again. Why won’t the house cleaning fairy and her magical duster visit me?
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Did you know that you can make it so that no one can hotlink your images? It’s an .htaccess setting. And that sounds a lot more complicated than it really is.
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I, for one, think that photo of you, the one from grade nine, baby, is AWESOME.
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I love how svelt and clever you are about it all.
I’ve been thinking about watermarking my photo’s, but I haven’t yet, partially because I am a bit lazy, and partially because I’m kind of thinking to myself, self, your photo’s are not that great, who would want to steal not that great photos. Am I too naive?
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I guess I should watermark my photos, but I don’t know how and I don’t have time to learn! Oh well, I’ll just hope nobody steals them. They aren’t good enough to steal anyway!
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Oh my goodness I LOVE where you live. And your family. I know no one has a perfect life and you have bad days the same as the rest of us. But you do a great job of portraying the beauty that exists to the point that it almost seems perfect.
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