Who the heck is this cheeky so-and-so? Someone going by the name of ‘refekt’ has thrown up a WordPress blog with half-a-dozen or so of my blog post­ings under their own name! They even gone so far as to repro­duce the markup I used as well as the blog being one of my themes.

The blog is at podzice.com. The domain is owned by Chi-Tak Chow of white­wa­ter, WI.
I’ve con­tac­ted the host­ing ser­vice and cc-ed the Admin­is­trat­ive Con­tact for the domain. Alas the lat­ter bounced immediately.

update 1:20am: Here’s another one. www.golig.com/wp This time just tak­ing the head­lines and first few words, pre­sum­ably to have some con­tent to exper­i­ment with.

Update 26/06/2005: I’ve had no response from either the owner or the host­ing com­pany and there are a couple of new stor­ies on there now (neither are mine). So I went ahead and registered on his blog (you have to register in order to com­ment). I’ve left a polite com­ment on each of the 8 or 9 posts which have been stolen from me. They are flagged for mod­er­a­tion, I await a response.

Resolved! 26/06/2005: Chris Park­er­son at his host­ing com­pany has removed the posts with my con­tent! Great. Thanks Chris!
I also got a sep­ar­ate email from the owner of the site explain­ing he had given post­ing priv­ileges to the guy who was respons­ible and won’t be doing that again.