{"id":1611,"date":"2007-08-09T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:49:40","slug":"an-opportunity-for-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/an-opportunity-for-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opportunity For Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, before the days when I would compulsively check my visitor stats for my blog in SiteMeter, I would compulsively check the statistics for my website, <a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/\">Splotchy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website has not been updated by me in years, and these days I rarely check the stats there.  But, one recent day I thought I&#8217;d check them out.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that one particular image seemed to be getting a fair amount of hits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/guesttitle.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/guesttitle.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hits were coming from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ghouseproductions\">MySpace page<\/a> of self-proclaimed hip-hop, religious rapper G. House.  It turns out that he is using this image of mine as wallpaper for his site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/ghouse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/ghouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, when you&#8217;re putting images on your site that you yourself are not hosting, you could find yourself at the mercy of the person who *is* hosting the image.  Why it was just earlier this year that <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/03\/28\/0236232\">John McCain fell victim<\/a> to an image-swapping prank.<\/p>\n<p>So here, I&#8217;m looking for suggestions.  I was thinking about doing an image switcheroo  &#8212; uploading a new image to my website to replace the above &#8220;Guest House&#8221; image.  Nothing too terribly mean, just something mischievous.  What do you think would be a nice wallpaper for Mr. G. House?<\/p>\n<p><span>UPDATE:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I uploaded Flannery Alden&#8217;s suggestion in her comment to my website.  May the hip-hop God have mercy on my soul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/ghouse_after.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/images\/blog\/ghouse_after.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, before the days when I would compulsively check my visitor stats for my blog in SiteMeter, I would compulsively check the statistics for my website, Splotchy.com. This website has not been updated by me in years, and these days I rarely check the stats there. 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