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MSNBot is a pig

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Just like at Labnotes, MSNBot (or at least bots claiming that User-Agent string) is beating the hell out of this blog. So far, it’s racked up 864.00MB of traffic in the first 10 days of this month! Lets see if MSNBot will obey robots.txt

En Fuego martini

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Yes, that is actually the name of a drink at Indigo’s made with pepperincini juice, green Tabasco, and [you guessed it] a pepperincini. Yum, Yum. The bad news is that happy hour (4-7pm) martini prices have been jacked from $2.75 up to $3.50.

As worth noting about Indigo’s is that it contains one of my favor works of men’s room graffiti.

Save Mice, Eat Pussy

Where should you sign your photographs?

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Good question. It doesn’t seem like there is any sort of consensus or standard. I’m leaning towards using the lower right hand corner but I’m a little on the fence as to whether this should be in the image itself or if it should be in a border area (which would mean I’d have to start creating borders for my images). There doesn’t seem to be a consensus in this photo.net thread either.

How to sign your photographs

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As suggested in a posting here it’s a fairly simple matter to sign your photographs with ImageMagick. It’s a little tricky creating the copyright symbol but I’ve settled on this Bash statement.

copyright="`echo -e '\251'` 2006 Joshua Hoblitt" convert -font AvantGarde-DemiOblique -fill silver -pointsize 36 -gravity Southeast -draw "text 30,10 '$copyright'" old.jpg new.jpg