Another Opinion Among Many

A short time ago, I wrote that someone was stealing my articles again. I’ve decided to go after this one, as s/he doesn’t seem to want to stop. Before I get into this too much, I want to be clear. What I write here is my opinion. It comes from my head. If I am inspired by others, I try to attribute the work to the rightful owner or creator. I try to ensure that what I use from others gets properly cited, so that its clear what it my work and what is not my work. I hope that I achieve this. If I ever screw up and use someone’s content and don’t properly cite it, I will fix that blunder if it comes to my attention (my email address is in the footer of every page here, along with my copyright notice).

If you want to use my writing as inspiration, by all means do. You’ll see that I don’t really have too many rules with what you do with what I write. The only disclaimer that I try to make apparent is that if you use my stuff, I want you to make sure that people know that its mine and not yours. (pull)Think for yourself. Don’t be lazy.(/pull) If your thoughts strangely coincide or collaborate with mine, then, besides feeling sorry for your mental health, I applaud you for letting the world know what’s on your mind.

With that in mind, I want to introduce you to http://1mlmpro.com/.

This site is a real class act! The content on this site is superb! How do I know? That’s easy!

I wrote some of it!

My article is here. Theirs is here. If you’re silly enough to subscribe to my feed, than you know that there are a few unique words at the beginning of every article. Funny how they are in our friend’s post too. Lazy jerk!
Uncanny. I’ve asked nicely to have the content taken down or attributed properly. A week later, I asked with a bit more legality for them to cease and desist (I don’t think they’re hosted in the US, so I doubt that they will be subject to the DMCA.

So, my next step was to advise one of their advertisers that they were violating the advertiser’s policy by advertising on a site made of stolen content:

Google Adsense complaint: “The content on this page has been completely copied from my site’s RSS feed and passed off as the site owner’s work for the purpose of gaining advertising revenue. Your Program Policy states “No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.”
The page is nearly all advertising and the content is not relavent to anything on the site. This “publisher” has done this with my content before and has not complied with my take down request. You will find that this “publisher’s entire site is comprised of stolen content from Blog RSS feeds by other authors. This webmaster is a fraud.”

I haven’t seen any results yet, after four days, so I supposed that Google is either taking its time, or doesn’t care. The next step is to notify the web host (and their registrar, if it seems to to any good).

So, 1mlmpro.com, if you’re still scraping, I hope that you scape and use this post. Its a good one!

Arrr, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day - another silly holiday that has been made up to make the world a better place.  As Mac has already noticed and posted, its time to talk like a pirate.  I’ve decided to commemorate the day and rewrite all my blog posts as a pirate! Happy reading!

Thanks to Dragonlady for the heads up on this silly “test”, I decided to do it too.  Turns out that I’m:

You are 75% geeky.

You’re the ultimate geek. I’d write that in Klingon, but you’d probably correct my grammar. Get a girlfriend.

The current average score is: 31.07%

Fact: 19.54% of people who took this test claim to have attempted to build a robot.

Try for yourself.

Have you ever put your mind in neutral with the parking break off? I do that sometimes just to keep sane, and sometimes the strangest paths get taken. Yesterday, I was doing such a thing and, for one reason or another, a thought popped into my head and it really made me think. Sometimes it takes a long time for things to change, but they do.

I’ll tell more after the link. I’ll warn you. There will be an extremely offensive phrase that you’ll see. If you’re not prepared, then don’t click the link (this is a serious post).
Continue reading ‘Racism vs Progress’ »

I’ve noticed a few references lately to The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and I was wondering if there’s something to this. After all, the “official website” seems to have enough anecdotal evidence to support the theory. It looks like AMG and TEG have “seen the noodle”, so to speak. Will you be next?

in case you didn’t figure it out yet, this is a silly post …or is it…

I got a bit silly when responding to this thread on frihost. I ended up making a few silly pics. Click on the link below to see what I mean. Those on dialup might want to click and go put the kettle on…
Continue reading ‘Gotta be Goofy’ »

I’ve been playing around with a different template (still giving props, so look at the bottom). What do we think?)

Testing a blockquote is a good idea, don’t you think?

..and there’s this thing called… Continue reading ‘I don’t know if you like it, but…’ »