I hate to do things that make me look like a jerk, but I had to. If you directly link to any of my images from somewhere else, you’re going to get an image that looks like this:
I had to do it, because in the first few days of the month, I’ve gone through as much of my bandwidth quota as I normally do in an entire month. And, after nicely requesting that the person who was stealing my bandwidth simply copy the image to his/her own server, that person instead linked the same image in a different location – like I wouldn’t be able to find it. Hello? Referrer logs?
Anyway, the plan was just to do it for that one referrer, but since it kept changing, I did it for any requests for my images that don’t come from my server. Please let me know if for some reason this messes up the images on my site – as far as I can tell, it hasn’t. And if you ever want to use my images, copy them to your own server, link back to me, and everyone will be happy. (And if you ask me first, I’ll be even happier.)