Red Echo

July 16, 2007

I just discovered the weirdest thing: fifteen thousand hits in my server access logs from someplace called forum.bettingadvice.com. I snooped around and it turns out that one of the participants is using my old sidebar photo as his avatar picture. Huh. Some random guy in Denmark wants his buddies to think he looks like me? I don’t exactly know what to think about that, but I’m sort of flattered in a creepy, mildly uncomfortable way.

4 Comments

  1. Makes you wonder how he found the photo…

    Of course, you are all over the interweb. You must travel through a lot of tubes.

    Comment by Kitty — July 16, 2007 @ 12:07 pm

  2. So, you gonna Referer-trap the thing? :)

    Perhaps nothing sinister, just the same picture with a big red (/) through it, and the words, “I am not”? :p

    Comment by Micah Cowan — July 16, 2007 @ 12:35 pm

  3. Hey Mars,
    something very similar happened to me a couple of month ago: http://www.sqlabs.net/blog/2007/03/attack-details-and-new-mirror.html.
    A good apache rule should block this kind of abuses.

    Comment by Marco Bambini — July 17, 2007 @ 12:42 am

  4. A little php might allow you to substitute a better picture — there must be a head shot of W out there somewhere.

    Comment by charles — July 19, 2007 @ 10:17 am