Steal that image! Here at Salon Blogs we have several weblogs whose curators go heavy on the graphics; not a bad thing per se, except when they download their images from scores of different servers.

You know what I mean: the image might be a copyrighted cartoon, a picture from a news site or something culled from Google's image search. And, whether out of respect for the copyright holder or for the sake of simplicity, the weblog curator, to display it in their own pages, "pulls" the image from its original server.

Are you still with me? Awright.

The problem with this strategy is, that for each image "pulled" from a server other than that of the weblog, a new Web connection must be made; and maybe it's just me, since I'm still living the 56K, dial-up era, but after a while, the lines are full, the images aren't always downloaded, and instead I get a lot of these:

Of course, if you're pulling an image from a cheapo homepage server, you could get lots worse...

So please, I'm asking you: steal those images. Download them to your computer and then upload them to your weblog server. (There are ways to do it, you know?) If for no other reason, just to reduce the workload on those with phone modems, like yours truly.