First, I apologize for stealing your bandwidth. Let me assure you that it was not done maliciously--I am not normally a thief. I'm a nice person and only borrow occasionally. I would think that you should feel honored that so many people, daisy lovers like myself, appreciated your picture.
However... I'm not sure if the thought crossed your mind that perhaps the horrible, no-good, indecent offenders didn't know that they were theiving. I had no idea that posting your picture would use up your bandwidth - and really? I just found the pic on the internet. I never read anything related to it until you showed up. One idea - if you don't want people using your pictures, I know that there are programs that you can use to protect the picture from download or linking. Besides, Blogger doesn't let you simply pull a file from your hard drive for your profile pic. It does for everything else, but for some, dumb reason - the profile pic must be located on the net.
I'm considering changing my profile to the following picture:
But then again... spongebob IS kinda cute. Maybe I'll leave him up for awhile, it being October and all.
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???? I don't understand. But I forgive you anyway.
First, you weren't the only person to use my bandwidth. Typically I don't bother looking at my log files, but decided to see who was hitting my site. I was surprised to find my garden used on so many websites!
Flattering? Maybe. Weird when you see your yard as someone's image? DEFINITELY :-)
But, my point being, that the bandwidth adds up. My family has found that we've had to upgrade our allowable bandwidth useage because of so many hits. When bandwidth is being used that shouldn't be, it's frustrating. We host our own site. And at the end of the month when I can't get email because of being over the limit in bandwidth, I get angry.
We get high traffic as it is, but if it can be cut down by non-essential, it's better.
Please also be careful about using images that aren't your own. As someone who eventually wants to make a living designing, protecting a copyright can get very expensive on the other person's side. Disney is a HUGE example of this... They are vigilant in protecting their copyright.
Some thoughts, when saving an image, place it on any free image hosting site flickr.com, webshots.com, etc. Flickr will give you the url, as well as resize to whatever you want.
thanks for the info, Melissa. So many people don't know this (like me).
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