Remember, last November when the incoming web admins cleaned out the robts text file of all the various directories, apparently being directed from on high to do it?

Supposedly, this part of the meme that this was going to be a new era of openness and accountability Remember that nonsense?

(Argue the actual merits and success rate of that policy, both in general and on the website if you will, it's outside my main point)

I think I better understand why the Bush robots.txt was so restrictive; It was for this precise scenario; items like these photos... which while not very secret, would allow an inner-workings view as to the system behind the website.

Certainly the 'hero' directory wouldn't have shown up on Google, had Google been instructed by means of the robots.txt not to crawl the thing.

I can't help but think there are other treasures to be found, that way, on that site. Likely nothing more harmful than 'easter eggs', but ya never know.

OTOH, they may now be adding to that robots file, too. Amazing what a little exposure to reality will do.

(Snicker)

In my opinion, every photo in the hero directory was most likely used with one of the lead stories. Currently the images tied to all 4 lead stories are in the hero directory.

Example;

This image is currently on the home page, and is in the hero directory.

This is a bigger version of the same image, that is not from the home page, and is not in the hero directory.

In fact, I launched a site just a recently with a number of random photos that loaded on the home page, and each of them is identified by the file name hero-whatever.jpg.

Much ado about nothing.

You're welcome.

I watched the far left do the same kind of lunatic nonsense to Bush in the early years.

But, seriously, What the Hell?

Excellent question. Red State?

The Joyner decline continues. Losing must suck more than I remember.

I could be entirely wrong with that, though, and Team Obama could just be continuing to drink their own Kool-Aid and believe Obama to be the second coming.