Another time, I had the urge to call this animated GIF file of someone getting sick "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg", so I did!

I left this up for several days.

No one seemed to notice. I laughed a lot to myself though.

The hit counter on the young lady's site suggested that people were looking. I know I was!

Tee hee!

David made a little JPG using words, and called it "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg". So the young lady's profile looked like this for a while.

See if you can guess which words David added to take the place of the chicken picture! No points for guessing right - this time, at least.

So, an 18 year old young lady with an account on a social web forum up in Canada decided that my chicken pic would be great for her profile page.

She had it on a list of things she really liked, like dancing and certain sports and music personalities. She had lots of stolen pictures there.

She linked her profile to my picture. She basically said, using code, "look at the file on BrennerWorld called "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg".

Today, that file might look like the picture above, but tomorrow, I can take any picture I want and give it that name.

So, tomorrow, "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg" could look like this:

It all depends upon what I name "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg".

And, yes, I did name the Tampax picture "YattaYattaChickenPic.jpg", and yes, that picture was on her site for a while. Right in the middle of pictures of lots of things she things are cool.

She didn't seem to notice!

Last month, I discovered that someone was helping themselves to my Golden Chick icon (left). Not only were they helping themselves to my icon, they were using my blog as an image hosting site!

For readers who are not familiar with this, I will explain. The short version:

An image's file can be big or small, dependent upon picture size and complexity. And, an image file can be viewed in one place, even though the actual file "lives" elsewhere. So, you can put a copy of my entire ChickenPic file on your site, taking up a bunch of your website's space, or you can put code in your site that says "look at the Chicken Picture that is on BrennerWorld", which takes up only the room of the code that says to do that on your site, but uses MY bandwidth when someone looks at YOUR site.

When you do that, I have to pay every time someone looks at the chicken picture on your site, since your chicken picture is really on MY site. NOT FAIR!

Here's where it gets fun! If you do not put the real file on your site, then you are at my mercy. 'Cause basically all you can do is link to a file name. And I can name any file on my site anything I like!

So, what I call "ChickenPic.jpg" today can be something totally different tomorrow.

Lesson two to follow. Stay tuned!