Blasted thieves…
Well, things are progressing well here at murf-STUFF I would care to think. Feb. 2005 has proven a landmark month for me and the site in a variety of ways. According to my various stats pages, I've had more visitors, hits, bandwidth use, etc. over the course of this month then in the entirety of April-December of last year (the time I had the site). I've done 1 comic a week for the past 4 weeks, granted murf-ART has taken a hit due to the fact that things in my life are little haywire right now and my new focus on the comic.
With good comes bad. After fully exploring my site stats pages, I learned how to track things down about how people are reaching my site and what not. I've never had any formal training in webmastering, so no mocking me now. However, I had discovered several sites (crapfully run blogs mostly) who were using my wallpapers as backgrounds for their sites. Normally, I'd have no qualms with this. But the problem is that they didn't even bother to download the image off my site, and further upload it to theirs. Just used a direct tag. Thus, “stealing” bandwidth from me. Granted, I was guilty of this practice in my early days when I was roughly 13-14, new to the internet and didn't know any damn better. The biggest issue here being, beyond a doubt, that as of right now the wallpapers are the largest files on my site. I've taken temporary steps to hopefully halt this practice for the time being. If you were one of those people, I've got my eye on you, I know where your sites are. Do it again, and you'll hear from me personally. Keep doing it after that, and I'll remove the damn things outright. SO KNOCK IT OFF!!! IT'S STEALING!!!
Enough of my ranting about that topic. Mum had surgery for her cancer this week and as far we can tell things are looking good! We'll get to know the details of everything next week. If you're a REAL nice person, you can send “Get Well” e-mails to “mum[at]murfstuff.com” Just be sure to remove the [at] and use @ instead. Hate to have her mail get all junked up with spam.
Greg, Shane and John went to Katsucon for a day. I couldn't go since I had to take care of Mum while she was in the hospital. Greg got me a Naruto headband while he was there. I'll be sure to add a picture of it later. Until then, peace out y'all!
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