Thursday Minute
Somebody has pirated my web site. I don't care if you borrow and modify my CSS files, but this is silly. Oh my, they're also directly linking to the background image tile on my server. Mmmm...that gives me an idea...
What to do when your tax bill gets too high? Why, make up an erroneous tax credit of course.
With Yahoo! on the verge of charging money for email services and Hotmail becoming slower and slower, now is a great time for Apple to launch Mac.com Webmail. Though Apple started issuing free mac.com email addresses almost two years ago, this is the first time users have been able to send and receive email without using an email client. The service is technically a beta, but works quite well.
Looks like David Coursey, that tech writer for ZDNet who divorced himself from Windows and used only an iMac for a month as an "experiment," can't give the little bugger up. I wouldn't either.
Oh Dean, you must be happy.
WTF are Linkin Park and System of a Down doing in this list, let alone the top 10? Well, at least they didn't include PJ Harvey for the umpteenth time. I like her. Spin loves her.
I found out this morning a client of mine uses Netscape 2. They're happy. Somebody, please send me flowers.
Thanks to Arts & Farces, somebody just bought the cabin used in the movie Fargo. Mmmm...the smell of a wood chipper in winter.
In case you've been under a rock, Photoshop 7 has been released. Great...now if only Apple would speed up the OS X Finder I'd be in heaven.
Comments
oh yeah, baby! change the background image! hehe...the mind reels with the possibilities, but maybe just something like "I AM A THIEF" would sufice. Let us know when you do it.
Posted by: Scott McMillin at April 18, 2002 12:38 PM
OMG. That's brilliant. I just cracked up my office with that one.
Posted by: Geoffrey at April 18, 2002 12:45 PM
...I already changed it. Hope they like Good Times.
Posted by: Todd at April 18, 2002 1:16 PM
Looks like the perp has yanked it. And that she had (at least mildly) decent intentions. Of course, I suppose a sizable percentage of design theft is like this, really -- people making off with something they admire because they want to figure out how it's done.
Hm. Did anybody see any little "copyright 2002 so-and-so" notes at the bottom before this went live? That there is cause for smacking around. Not entirely unlike the time that one client, after I was finished with their site, hired the Kid Next Door to do some updates and said Kid stripped out all my bylines and credits and threw in his own. Jackass.
Posted by: Geoffrey at April 18, 2002 6:09 PM
Hi. My site was not really a "public site." It was the site I used to give the latest news and show pictures of my daughter to my family back home. They accepted the design mess as I tried to learn moveabletype and style sheets. At most six people (used to) know of its existence.
Geoffrey, it would have been better if I had changed the color schemes, typography, layout, etc before it was "live." I'm sure you've realized I'm no where as skilled as Todd. One area (of many) in which I'm deficient is that I don't know how to use moveabletype except on that server. Regular pages I can test on my computer. Moveabletype pages I can't. So, in the last few days I've been trying to see how to make columns fit and use categories make the correct posts appear. I was following Todd's tutorial and using his style sheets to see what would happen as I changed the code. Could I make four columns that didn't jump out of the main area, could I make text flow around a horizontal picture, etc.
The color schemes, typography, layout etc...would have been changed as I played and learned from Todd's tutorial and code. Yes, I saw the copyright, but this wasn't an example of Bunn stealing market share by trying to copy Bialetti's latest coffee pot design. After I understood how to make everything work...I would have deleted all of Todd's code and improved my previous design by learning from his superior skills.
Not changing the link away from Todd's server was simply the oversight of an amateur. I knew better, I just missed the one link. culpa levis in abstracto...
But I do think this is different in scope and intention from your example (of the person who took your code from a client and passed it off as his own.) I would never have used Todd's code on a truly "live" website. I even offered to reimburse him --- especially for the bandwidth the I used as I kept reloading the page to test it.
Posted by: CG at April 18, 2002 7:49 PM
