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    <description>I am not a teenager. I play one on the Internet.</description>
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    <copyright>Public Domain - All rights under copyright waived.</copyright>
    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:44:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>I am dumb...</title>
      <link>http://peeved.org/blog/site/20061102-001.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
William Henry Harrison Ford Motor Company
</p>

<p>
Hewlett Packard Bell and Howell
</p>

<p>
Fat Albert Gore Vidal Sassoon
</p>]]></description>
      <author>T.A. Adjuster &lt;blog@peeved.org&gt;</author>
      <category>/site</category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>I'm Very Popular in the Netherlands</title>
      <link>http://peeved.org/blog/site/20051231-001.html</link>
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Bandwidth swiped again. I can't speak Dutch, so I'll just have to guess that
the young girls in <a href="http://forum.ellegirl.nl/showpost.php?p=4626579&postcount=209">this forum</a>
are reveling in my <a href="http://peeved.org/ugly">ugliness</a>.
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Before:
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<a href="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051231-001.jpg"><img alt="Before" style="border: 0" width="295" height="278" src="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051231-001.tn.jpg" /></a>

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After:
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<a href="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051231-002.jpg"><img alt="After" style="border: 0" width="295" height="278" src="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051231-002.tn.jpg" /></a>]]></description>
      <author>T.A. Adjuster &lt;blog@peeved.org&gt;</author>
      <category>/site</category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bandwidth Theft</title>
      <link>http://peeved.org/blog/site/20051216-001.html</link>
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<p>
Sometimes forlorn young girls (and, occasionally "football dudes") link to
the images on my server in their blogs. Usually they're just using one of
the <a href="http://peeved.org/ugly">ugly</a> pictures of me in a joke posting, or one of my
<a href="http://peeved.org/regret.html">forlorn</a> <a href="http://peeved.org/alone.html">handwritten</a>
notes. Occasionally they use the image as a background (and I'll never
understand that one).
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<p>
Whatever the case, they're stealing my bandwidth. I don't really <a
href="http://peeved.org/disappointed">care</a> if they use the images, but my bandwidth has
scarcity and I'd like to use as much of it for my own purposes as possible,
especially since I've already got so much <a href="http://peeved.org/blog/2005/10/03/#20051002-001">fun spam</a>
using my bandwidth already.
</p>

<p>
So, I troll my access log and see what kind of referring pages I'm getting,
and to what they're referring. When I see links to my images directly, I
visit the "offending" site, decide if one of my <a href="http://peeved.org/bandwidth_thieves">stock images</a>
is already well suited for the application or if a custom new one needs to
be made, I modify my original HTML and change the image's name, and finally
symlink in a new image. After this is all done, I go back and visit their
site to see how it changed.
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<p>
I'm changing my routine, thought. I'm going to take a screenshot of the
"before" and "after" now, and post a link here. This is more for my own
enjoyment and documentation than anything else. There have been several very
good image-swaps that I almost forgot about, like that time that somebody <a
href="http://sub-vision.net/index/viewtopic.php?p=11665">linked to</a> my 
<a href="http://peeved.org/bandwidth_thieves/hey_everybody.gif">"Hey everybody, I'm a jerk..."</a>
image in a thread collecting "stop stealing my bandwidth" messages from all
over the net... *snicker*
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<p>
So, tonight we have Mr. <a href="http://www.xanga.com/Armucheefootball56/407863138/item.html">Armucheefootball56</a>
from Xanga. I actually made a custom image just for him, since he really doesn't
fit the profile of my usual bandwidth theft.
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<p>
Before:
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<a href="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051216-001.jpg"><img alt="Before" style="border: 0" width="384" height="278" src="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051216-001.tn.jpg" /></a>

<p>
After:
</p>

<a href="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051216-002.jpg"><img alt="After" style="border: 0" width="384" height="278" src="http://peeved.org/pics/site/20051216-002.tn.jpg" /></a>
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      <author>T.A. Adjuster &lt;blog@peeved.org&gt;</author>
      <category>/site</category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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