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A mistake

Brett — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:24:29 +0000

I put up a dummy replacement for the Winona Chiropractic site yesterday. I didn’t expect many people to see it, except hopefully the client. It’s gone viral on Twitter in the meantime, and I just wanted to verify that yes, it was real.

I have waited for several years for this client to pay me. I have sent statements. I have been told that it would be “taken care of.” It wasn’t, so I took care of it. That’s all. I am not unprofessional, I am fed up.

Update: I’ve taken the site down entirely. This isn’t really what I want to be known for, and it got a little out of hand. The original site got almost no traffic in the last year, and I didn’t expect anyone but Winona Chiropractic to see it, and I didn’t even expect that to happen very quickly, given that they hadn’t updated it for at least a year. Anyway, Google indexed it, so I made my point, I guess. It’s funny how a few thousand hits all at once makes Google take notice of things. I’ll let you know if anything good actually comes of this.

For the record, I own and control the domain, the server is mine, and I wasn’t paid for the work. There was no hack involved, just me changing a site I built. It didn’t say anything slanderous. I just stated the fact that I hadn’t been paid. I’m not saying it was a brilliant move, but I was at least careful to try and avoid being sued.

For as long as I’ve been on the ‘net, I’ve never really been known for doing anything mean. Seriously. I’ve always made a concerted effort to be nice, albeit sarcastic and a little dry. I don’t like the inordinate amount of damage this thing has and will cause; it’s disproportionate to any damage to me. On the other hand, this whole thing will probably affect my credibility as well, so it kind of comes out even. Right?

I’m not saying I don’t want to get paid, I really do. I’m also not saying that anything I said was incorrect, but my method was a little off-kilter. Like I said, I didn’t really think that anyone other than the client and a few people I actually knew would even see it. I really should have known better. Lesson learned.

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RedirectBuster, another late night Safari Extension

Brett — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:28:49 +0000

Okay, this one has a little refining left to go, but it seems to be working pretty flawlessly. I ported most of the code from a greasemonkey script. All I really want to add is a toolbar item that lets you easily turn it on and off, and maybe a whitelist feature.

There are actually legitimate uses for a plugin like this. Seriously.

Download

RedirectBuster — Removes redirects from urls. Pretty simple. More Info

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Emma, watching The Westminster Dog Show…

Brett — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:10:56 +0000

Uploaded by www.cellspin.net

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A CellSpin Test

Brett — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:08:27 +0000

This is a quick test of CellSpin, just to see if it does what I think it will.

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Test post from iphone

Brett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:18:39 +0000

Test post from my iPhone. I figure if this is slick enough, I might blog more… Guess we’ll find out.

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