Carl Sziebert » WTF http://sziebert.net is a software engineer with an interest in Spring, Hibernate, Red5 and jQuery development. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:25:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Open letter to the Chinese blogger stealing my work… http://sziebert.net/posts/open-letter-to-the-chinese-blogger-stealing-my-work/ http://sziebert.net/posts/open-letter-to-the-chinese-blogger-stealing-my-work/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:57:47 +0000 Carl Sziebert http://sziebert.net/posts/open-letter-to-the-chinese-blogger-stealing-my-work/ Dear Sir/Madam:

Thank you for taking the time to read through my posts and link to them. Unfortunately, you have managed to offend me. Instead of linking to my post and providing a summary like most considerate bloggers would, you have chosen to copy the article in whole, download my sample code and republish it WITHOUT so much as a single line giving credit to me as the original author. To me, this is unacceptable. Please update your pingbacks to correctly specify me as the author or I’ll be forced to ban you from reading my blog.

Regards,
Carl Sziebert

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Given that I feel this way, I felt as though I should experience life from the other side of the fence. Give myself a bit more ammo, so to speak. So here I am, ready to write about something interesting that, hopefully, someone else might enjoy reading. We’ll see.

What will I blog about? That remains to be seen. I do know that there are a couple of tutorials that I want to publish. A few of my ideas for software projects will probably end up here as well. Who knows, I may even write about some of my adventures as a below average poker player. Regardless, thanks for dragging yourself through my first post. Should be entertaining to see what other crap I throw up here.

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