Very sorry about the, er, shocking image on VegasReference.com. I had gotten tired of people stealing my images so I put some code on the server to display that image whenever someone embedded my images into their websites. Unfortunately I was careless and it wound up showing up on *my own* site.
It took me a while to track down the problem. It wasn’t a browser issue, which Kenneth suggested, it was a case-sensitivity problem. If you went to vegasreference.com it was fine, but if you went to VegasReference.com it wasn’t. Whoops.
There’s irony for ya. Maybe doubly so, because I always insist on serving my own banners. I usually do for the Wizard at WizardOfOdds.com, too. One reason is that we don’t allow animated banners, and if I let the casino serve the banner then they always try to stick in an animated one. Plus what someone else said, I think Dom or the Professor, that sometimes the casino’s server is unreliable and our own page would time out.
Anyway, it didn’t seem to hurt in the auction where I was selling adspace on that site. It closed at a record level. The space I’m selling for the Wizard on GamblingAds.com, though, that’s another matter. There’s less than a day to go and I’m worried that the auction will close at a record *low* amount. Maybe I should *accidentally* substitute a naughty picture to generate some publicity….