{"id":14832,"date":"2018-04-01T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2018-04-01T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:02:44","slug":"you-say-homage-i-say-ripoff-cakeordeathsites-what-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/01\/you-say-homage-i-say-ripoff-cakeordeathsites-what-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"You say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchomage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, I say ripoff: cakeordeathsite’s What a Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So via mefi<\/a> I find this: What A Life! | cakeordeathsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I love it when people discover this book. It’s been a minor obsession of mine for nearly 30 years. I first put it on the web in March 2000<\/a> and updated it to then-current web standards in 2003: What a Life!: an autobiography<\/a>. Over the years I’ve received a bunch of interesting notes from fans and even a couple from relatives of the authors. I marked it up the old, hard way: by scanning pages then re-keying the text. OCR wasn’t that great back in the day.<\/p>\n

So I get kind of irked that this cakeordeath fella lifts my pictures and markup wholesale. Shame he didn’t understand how to copy CSS, ‘cos his formatting comes out worse than mine:<\/p>\n

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cakeordeath’s rendering, viewed 2018-04-01 18:22:34<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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my rendering, viewed 2018-04-01 18:23:20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crack open View Source<\/em> on his https:\/\/cakeordeathsite.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/20\/what-a-life\/<\/a> and f’rinstance my Chapter 1, http:\/\/scruss.com\/wal\/chapter1.html<\/a>:<\/p>\n

mine:<\/p>\n

<div>\r\n<p<\/span>><span<\/span> class<\/span>=\"smallcaps<\/a>\">I<\/span<\/span>> was born very near the end of the\r\n<\/span>year. <img<\/span> src<\/span>=\"Images\/wal009a.jpg<\/a>\" width<\/span>=\"112<\/a>\" height<\/span>=\"104<\/a>\"\r\n<\/span>alt<\/span>=\"calendar showing 29 December<\/a>\" class<\/span>=\"right<\/a>\" \/><\/p<\/span>> \r\n<\/span><\/div<\/span>>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/span><p<\/span>>The grange where I was born was situated in a secluded corner of\r\n<\/span>the Chiltern Hills. Rumour had it that Queen Elizabeth had slept\r\n<\/span>there.<\/p<\/span>>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/span><div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"centre<\/a>\"><img<\/span> src<\/span>=\"Images\/wal009b.jpg<\/a>\" width<\/span>=\"160<\/a>\"\r\n<\/span>height<\/span>=\"232<\/a>\" alt<\/span>=\"doll's house<\/a>\" \/><\/div<\/span>><\/pre>\n
cakeordeath’s:<\/p>\n
<div<\/span>>\r\n<\/span><p<\/span>><span<\/span> class<\/span>=\"smallcaps<\/a>\">I<\/span<\/span>>&nbsp;<\/span>was born very near the end of the year.<img<\/span> class<\/span>=\"right<\/a>\" src<\/span>=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/scruss.com\/wal\/Images\/wal009a.jpg<\/a>\" alt<\/span>=\"calendar showing 29 December<\/a>\" width<\/span>=\"112<\/a>\" height<\/span>=\"104<\/a>\"><\/p<\/span>>\r\n<\/span><\/div<\/span>>\r\n<\/span><p<\/span>>The grange where I was born was situated in a secluded corner of the Chiltern Hills. Rumour had it that Queen Elizabeth had slept there.<\/p<\/span>>\r\n<\/span><div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"centre<\/a>\"><img<\/span> src<\/span>=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scruss.com\/wal\/Images\/wal009b.jpg<\/a>\" alt<\/span>=\"doll's house<\/a>\" width<\/span>=\"160<\/a>\" height<\/span>=\"232<\/a>\"><\/div<\/span>><\/pre>\n
I mean, come on<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 including my domain and image path scruss.com\/wal<\/em> in his image urls? Otherwise, it’s whitespace difference. I dunno, these kids today: lift anything without credit, so they would. Seems this dude is a semi-popular blogger, and I’d be vastly <\/em>annoyed if he were getting ad revenue for this, while I did this for fun and it’s cost me to host it all these years.<\/p>\n
There’s a further uncredited lift from Chris Mullen’s oldweb classic, Visual Telling of Stories<\/a>. cakeordeath’s banner page scan is straight out of Chris’s Collage Pioneers: E.V.Lucas and George Morrow, What a Life! 1911<\/a> with the same file name. Was there credit? Was there shite<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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