Referrer Logs Are a Wonderful Thing | February 7, 2004

I love looking through my referrer logs. You always end up finding the most interesting things. Just don't blink, as you may not realise you've left this site.

Posted at February 7, 2004 11:00 AM

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I wonder if you should let him know that you’ve changed the graphics on your site Andy.
At least he can then be totally up to date.

Posted by: Andy Mac at February 7, 2004 11:18 AM

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Andy, been too popular has it’s disadvantage too, the price one has to pay for being linked on all the other great blogs :-p I am kind of hoping he checks his referrer logs too lol. Interesting fact, there is a category law there !

Posted by: Veerle Pieters at February 7, 2004 12:46 PM

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Theres always one cheeky bar steward who’ll just lift a nice site’s design. Have you had words?

Posted by: Chris at February 7, 2004 12:58 PM

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Apparently keeping in the long line of bloggers who’ve had their layouts nicked, eh?

Have any of you guys noticed that the small changes that these people do make nearly always detract from the site rather than add to it?

Posted by: Ryan Brill at February 7, 2004 3:23 PM

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I think I blinked. _ Hehe, “I never saw this picture before…is this a new section?”

Posted by: Zelnox at February 7, 2004 3:42 PM

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“I wonder if you should let him know that you’ve changed the graphics on your site Andy.
At least he can then be totally up to date.” LOL

Sorry Andy, seriously, I don’t know whether you should be flattered or get angry.

Posted by: Gordon Mackay at February 7, 2004 4:21 PM

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Speechless…for a change :P

Posted by: Scrivs at February 7, 2004 5:05 PM

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That’s surreal. Took me 5 minutes to see what the deal was. I think I’d be pissed if I were you.

Posted by: Hass at February 7, 2004 5:17 PM

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He’s lifted your layout lock stock but managed to break it with an image that’s too wide. If you’re gonna steal, you might as well do it right! Shameful.

Posted by: Mike Stenhouse at February 7, 2004 5:27 PM

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I think you’ve just got to love the “Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved” on the bottom right of the page. Interestingly enough, this was also borrowed from you Andy.

Posted by: Dave Manelski at February 7, 2004 6:35 PM

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He’s a character alright… he’s also stripped all the required attribution from his Coppermine photo gallery.

Posted by: Al at February 7, 2004 6:57 PM

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So you found him out through your referral logs? Thats really funny! Dumb as well as theiving…

Posted by: Jon Hicks at February 7, 2004 8:32 PM

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Andy, I can’t believe you stole his design! you are a bad person.

Posted by: Andrew at February 7, 2004 8:57 PM

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From the comments here, this is just filled with too much irony!

Posted by: Chris Vincent at February 7, 2004 9:03 PM

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Isnt there a name for people that surf their stats? I dont feel as geeky now.

Posted by: Neil Vodka at February 7, 2004 9:12 PM

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It happened to Todd Dominey too: somebody in Estonia copied his flash website. That wasn’t simply stealing. Here’s the story

Posted by: Manlio at February 8, 2004 1:45 PM

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Oops… here’s the story
http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001124.shtml

Posted by: Manlio at February 8, 2004 1:49 PM

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Perhaps they have different attitudes to intellectual property theft in the Eastern Bloc. Last month I found myself looking at my own website clicking a link in my referrer logs too, in the process of being converted to a wine supplier’s site in the Czech Republic. He took it down after I called him out, but I preserved it on my own site so all his ‘hard work’ didn’t go to waste (Jan 8 04 entry, if anyone’s interested).

Posted by: Joel at February 8, 2004 3:02 PM

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Guess the guy didn’t like being told he was wrong, eh? He deleted all the comments than people posted about it… Can anybody say “loser”?

Posted by: Ryan Brill at February 9, 2004 12:59 AM

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“Safari can’t open the page “http://blog.michailov.com/” because it can’t find the server “blog.michailov.com””

Wonder what the new design will be like :-)

Posted by: Ben Pirt at February 9, 2004 10:56 AM

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http://www.michailov.com/blog/index.cfm

Posted by: Manuel at February 9, 2004 2:56 PM

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Dang, I can’t get to it from either URL. Do you suppose he got spooked and took down the blog entirely?

Posted by: Zoe at February 9, 2004 7:22 PM

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I surf my logs all the time. I would be blind without them.

Posted by: owen at February 10, 2004 5:06 PM

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http://www.lomopix.com (All rights reserved ;-))

Posted by: Mike at February 10, 2004 5:59 PM

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Great, another one to add to the list.

Posted by: Andy Budd at February 12, 2004 2:28 PM

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LOL! Poor guy changed the colors and the icons.

Posted by: Funkatron at February 14, 2004 1:13 AM