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September 18, 2005 Link to this post
Digging through the rubble
It's been a little while since I went through our Uploads folder - partly, this has been out of fear. There were over 300 items in it this time around (it's been roughly 45 days since it was last cleared), and that meant a lot of downloading, and a lot of processing. Amazingly, very few people seem to read the page they upload from - even though it says 'don't upload movies here!' we still got 54 of them. We got fan fiction, we got tricks writeups, we got story speculation (all items the page says 'don't put here!'). We also got some moron uploading a dozen or so wallpapers of some supermodel - smooth move, buddy. Yeah, we're gonna post 'em for you. Sure. There were dozens of people who apparently just wanted to see if the upload page works - we got existing wallpapers, Bungie wallpapers, and other random crap like this. (It works. Thanks for checking.) We got folks uploading hack scripts, attempting to break into our server. (The directory that holds the uploaded files is not web-accessible - don't waste your time.) But mixed in with all this garbage, we DID get a bunch of cool stuff; I'll be updating the Wallpaper and Misc Art sections in the next couple of days. And there were a few other pieces that are worth sharing with the community - though they don't really fit into existing sections. One of these came from Traize - it's a picture of his girlfriend's back, with her new tattoo nicely displayed. (It was sent in 2 weeks ago - apologies for the delay, Ali!) And a second 'random item' is a digital photo of a newspaper article submitted almost 3 weeks ago by Unrelenting (who apologizes for the lousy quality); it's unclear what newspaper this came from, but the caption reads "Soldiers from the 210th Forward Support Battalion of the 10th Mountain Division play the 'Halo 2' video game during free time at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. With four game consoles linked, as many as 16 play at once." I dunno... I've seen games turn ugly in real life... I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with real guns sitting so close to the players! Okay, that was my computer version of Spring -er, Fall Cleaning for the weekend; time to go outside and do some REAL cleaning. Update: Thanks to Subpoena, Unrelenting's older brother, who pointed out that the paper is The Watertown Daily Times, out of Watertown, NY. (I couldn't find the picture online, but I didn't look very hard.) (Louis Wu 20:30:45 UTC)
