I think that the better explanation is that if you’d embedded the file it would be stealing bandwidth, but linking to someone’s site via a link that takes them to that site is not stealing. Bandwidth theft is more often in the form of images–you put an image on a page that shows up on your page but is actually hosted on someone else’s site. It’s ok to make a hotlink TO the image, but not to DISPLAY the image. Same with the sound file.
I think that is what they were going for but didn’t explain it very clearly.
OK, that makes more sense to me. I thought that it wasn’t all that different in terms of bandwidth suck if I linked to the file instead of the blog, since the blog was the file’s “native habitat”. But it was such a teeny amount of data I was hoping it wasn’t a big deal.
When I was a kid some neighbors raised peahens. Their shrieking could be heard quite a ways off. One of my sister’s friends asked what the noise was and my sister told her it was the local S & M parlor.
It’s always cool to see large birds up close. I have a couple stories:
A few years ago, I was driving around Fairfax County when I came up on a vulture helping itself to the catch of the day. It must’ve been pretty good, as he didn’t fly away until I was very close, and I got a good look at him from very close. I never realized just how damn big they are.
My family was once chased away from a park bench by an emu at some exotic animal zoo near Reston, VA. We were just sitting there, and he came up and made noises like he was going to vomit all over us, so we left.
I’m still sometimes surprised and delighted by all the abundance of cool things that grow or walk or fly around here. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and the wildest thing I ever saw was a crow or just maybe a raccoon. Maybe. I can’t imagine living anywhere but here now.
OK, Photobucket is totally messing with me. If I’m logged into their site, that heron picture is oriented correctly. If I’m not, its sideways, feet left, head right.
Weird! I’m using FF 2.0.0.14 (XP) too! And the picture keeps landing on its side. I know vaguely what it must be: there’s a tag in the JPEG file that tells the orientation, and some picture viewers respect it and some don’t, and somehow the pixels are a different orientation than what the JPEG tag says. But why I see it and you don’t is what’s really odd.
