(Don’t forget to view in IE for full effect)
Yicks
I like the interactive content that is no longer interactive.
it says live weather 24 hours a day down the bottom
what live weather?
Oh that’s horrible 8O Even worse:
<meta name=“description” content="Live, local weather for Carter Lake, Iowa. Includes live webcam, radar, forecasts, lightning detector,
They created a separate blogger account for each page?! #-o
Ouch! That’s awful, Tom! 
It’s even gone online in the future
Site Launched: Dec 1, 2006
so maybe it will vanish as a time anomaly.
It seems to be a mashup site using your template (not the distributed ones from your site), but a real-steal. Not very polite… you should send a ‘cease and desist’ note to the contact info to have them (at least) remove the carterlake.org specific tags in the purloined HTML.
How did you find it? A google search on carterlake?
Ken
Naw… I imagine telling 60-70% of your visitors that they need to just deal with the problems of the site will be enough.
Besides, who would really know it was mine but me?
Imitation of the greatest form of flattery and all that.
How did you find it? A google search on carterlake?
My site logs started showing lots of visits as he was fixing the left nav bar.
Sorry to break it to you but there’s more 8O http://wxresource.blogspot.com/
That one has this in the source:
[color=red]
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.carterlake.org/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />[/color]
Block their IP at the least so they can’t steal images (and your bandwidth)…
The crap people do to cut corners…
-Bob
Yeah, I’ll give him a few more days, then block with my .htaccess…
are they directly linking to your site? if they are, why not just block the ip ranges…would be interesting to see what dissapears from their site
Well I WAS able to find the following articles on this site (actually pretty interesting):
“Roanoke weatherman fired: Nude pic last straw”
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/92003
and
Storm winds hit coast; gust to 102
http://www.blogs.oregonlive.com/oregonian/newsupdates/default.asp?item=243501
Yeah, I was sorry to see Jamey go. In my student-teacher days, I worked with one of his high school English teachers. He was a weather nerd even in the 10th grade. He just trusted the wrong “friends”.
Just sad. It’s unfortunate that someone who already has more than enough problems to deal with, also has to endure having that spread over the 'net.
That’s probably the most fun way to do it. Let the perp think they’ve cracked it and just when the site is finished shut off access to all the bits they shouldn’t be accessing :lol:
This is turning into a comedy… or at least a short comedic play…
(No… I didn’t email first… Kenny did. He’s got questions.)
:lol:
At 04:30 PM 12/2/2006, stormtracker1@*******.net wrote:
huh?
Repackaging?
Move?
what r u talking about?
I asked about e-rice.net and there hosting.
Kenny
---- Tom Chaplin wrote:
After all the work you put into “repackaging” my site’s code and
graphics, you’re going to move it now?At 10:12 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote:
Hi
How long did it take you to get your welcome message from e-rice.net
so u can start making your site. I ordered mine about an hour ago
and still have not gotten an email.
I saw on your page that you use e-rice and since its cheap i decided
to use them.
Is it easy to use?Thanks!
Kenny
It is the IP of the visitors that will be hitting the site (Toms) to get the graphic content.
So blocking the web sites IP won’t do any good. You would need to setup a hotlink blocker which looks for
attempts using his site (the rouge site) as a referrer.
That normally needs the ability to use mod_rewrite. Don’t know if his (Toms) provider has that turned on.
It’ll be http://www.alabamaweather.org/
I followed the instructs from the link broadstairs posted: Useful .htaccess info
I’m blocking right now… you can see that on the astrology link: http://astronomyskychart.blogspot.com/
That’s no fun though…
You are blocking all the images with a 403 error. So the images are shown as broken.
I’d rather give them a different image… one that stands out.
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} www.arff\.com [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|png|PNG)$ /images/UNAUTHIMAGE.gif [R]
That image looks like:
http://www.tnet.com/images/UN-carterlake.gif
Then each and every image they are hotlinking no matter how small, ends up nice and big… The effect can be quite stunning if they are using a lot of images.
The only issue, is that you have to serve the image from an area that is not protected, but that is easy with another .htaccess in a top level directory just for that image.
Pretty cool image… mind if we link to it? :lol: I promise I won’t change the URL… 