On Babies and Stealing Bandwidth

Everyone thinks they've got the cutest kid, right? Have you ever thought your 1-2 year old was cute enough to be a model? Well, ours is -- and we've got proof. About 45 days ago I noticed that the bandwidth on my website began to increase dramatically -- by 400% in two months. I thought, wow, people must really be enjoying the handful of sermons and interviews that I've posted. But then I also noticed an extremely large number of searches for things like baby, baby girl, new born girl, laughing girl, etc. And then, voila, in my list of "links from an external page," I found that a certain website had a picture of my daughter. And, what d'ya know, it was being served right from my website. Which means they were "stealing" my bandwidth. They must have a lot of traffic because I almost had to get a new service plan from my web hosting company (Codex -- they do a great job, by the way).

So we decided to play a joke on them (I learned this one from Joe Carter -- apparently this is called hotlinking), and do a little evangelism to boot. If you check out the image (the font isn't great, but the words are discernible) you'll see that it relates a very important message (given that the website apparently services Hindu people). I wonder how long they will leave it up there.

I hope to eventually re-post the pictures of our daughter in a way that will disallow this sort of abuse (you might notice--I'm sure the baby-searchers have--that I unpublished all blog posts that include her picture). Indeed, Karis Joy is beautiful......

Update: I have now posted some videos of our daughter.