Direct-Linkers Beware

So looking at my personal site usage stats I finally got pissed off enough at the amount of direct-linking that was going on from various of my fanlisting sites that I've finally set up the .htaccess file that will stop people direct-linking to my stuff. With 1000+ hits from xanga.com alone for April (and it's only the 12th for chrissakes), it was about time, and they're definitely not from people just randomly visiting my fanlistings that much... also I can't begin to count the amount of hits from some anime site/forum go-gaia.com *grr*.

It's also been implemented on goth.net as well, so people direct-linking to the forum avatars or main site images will also not be able to do so. It doesn't affect user pages, so those of you with a GN site who host images on their own space for their own avatars on other forums, or pics to show off on livejournal etc. needn't worry.

Thanks to silverthoughts for showing me the site to write up the .htaccess code, and thanks to prez for helping me modify the file beyond what that site would show as possible.

Good With The "Bad"

So I missed my train going into NYC, by like 15 seconds. Frustrating but not detrimental, as I was trying to go in an hour earlier so as to pick prez up at work. Now I'll just have to meet him at the dojo.

Upside is that I picked up the mail on the way back into the house, 2 packages :)

Luna thank you, thank you, thank you! for the scarf, it's gorgeous :)

So now am all swish with black and purple wide-striped scarf :D

The other package was the one my brother sent me, with a gift in it and some of my books from back home to fill it up (apparantly the postal rate is the same for something like 200g-1kg). My brothers sent me a framed picture of my cat :D So now I can look at Abby in the windowsill behind my desk... the perfect place, seeing as it's where all cats generally take up residence sooner or later. Little window/sunlight hogs :)