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I heard a rumour that it had achieved sentience and decided to give up its life of servitude to retire to the coast somewhere.

> I'm working on it for at least 3 months now and it's 90% complete

Good luck with the other 90% ;)

Thanks for the link, sant0sk1 :)

I don't think so, no. Why should a person or company be financially punished for doing nothing wrong? Your suggestion means that if you are sued and pay for a decent lawyer to defend you, but your opponent pays someone dirt cheap (or no-win, no-fee), and then you win, you will be out of pocket for your own defence.

The risk is that it's not just the domain name at stake. A lost court case can result in an order to pay the opposition's costs. For a large legal team, that can be expensive.

I moved it to a new domain, as scq was kind enough to also comment. It's at http://www.addedbytes.com now.

I have some experience of a similar situation, having at one point run a web dev blog at ilovejackdaniels.com, before the JD legal team contacted me ... and I'm on a new domain now.

The problem, as explained to me by a lawyer (I am not a lawyer, so don't go taking this as legal advice, as I'm paraphrasing what I was told), is that legal departments for really big corporations just care about winning. It doesn't really matter whether they are in the right or not. What's going to make it difficult for you is that they have a huge amount of resources that you don't.

It sounds in your case like they have no actual case for cybersquatting or similar. But that doesn't mean they won't sue you. And if you can't afford to be sued, then that's an automatic win for them.

You also need to evaluate what level of stress and trouble you're prepared to go to to protect the domain. It may suck, but there will be a point at which it would be better for your sanity and your health to let them have the domain and get as much as you can out of them for it.

If I were in your shoes (and I was) I would first visit a lawyer. Get some proper advice.

Also, it would be nice if there was somewhere I could drop my email address to be notified when Stripe makes it to the UK.

I made something similar a while ago ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/ ). I never did work out why these things aren't more popular. Might I suggest adding ical?

I did know that, but wasn't sure the "p" stood for "perl". The manual page for preg_match leads with "preg_match — Perform a regular expression match", so I went with that.

I moved the site to Linode and set my swap incorrectly, so as soon as the memory ran out it fell over. Oops.

If you're having trouble finding good steak, try somewhere other than McDonalds ...

The sixth of tetradecember?

Thanks very much - I will!

I love the internet :)

Strangely enough, I don't drink JD any more. I prefer Bulleit and Jura these days. And I do miss having a domain that memorable.

Sorry, the invites come from the company, rather than the community. That said, you can suggest your site via a form on their contact page.

Thanks :) - glad they were useful! I've got a paypal thing on the cheat sheet download pages ... http://www.addedbytes.com/download/subversion-cheat-sheet-v1...

I set up a web dev blog in 2003, at ILoveJackDaniels.com, and after a few months of rubbish blogging starting doing free cheat sheets to download. At its peak, from AdSense and text link ads, it made about $1200 per month. I had to move domain (trademark heat), and moved to AddedBytes.com. Lost lots of traffic and links, unfortunately. Ad revenue dropped over time (around $100 at its lowest), and I recently ditched the text links and adsense to go with CarbonAds.

Plagiarism? Really? They didn't copy the text of the article, did they? They wrote their own, based on the original source. That's hardly unusual. I'm not even sure it's unethical. At most it warrants an attribution, but this witch-hunt is way over the top.

Maybe the best thing you can do is build that drive in others. Hell, I've got two web projects that have been meandering along for over a year, both not launch-ready - getting stuff out of the door is, for me (and I imagine many others), the biggest problem.

Perhaps you could be some sort of "entrepreneurial personal trainer" :)

How would suggest a programmer improve his analysis skills?

> twirling pens around my fingers

Man, your fingers must be pumped!

> aircraft carriers made out of ice

Pykrete, really - a combination of wood and ice. And the idea had merit - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk for lots of interesting details.

I'd be up for trying that if you want testers. I'm lazy and need a decent todo app.

That's rather good. I (long ago in the dark ages of the 90s) built something very similar to twitter and included the ability to see just URLs from posts. I wish they'd do the same thing.

The "Donate money to me" button.

And so you have no difficulty with this? I haven't been in your position, so I can't be certain, but I like to think that the first thing I would do if I was hearing voices would be to seek some sort of reliable independent corroboration, and failing to find it would be deeply troubling.

> How about the other way around?

The occasional lucky survivor does not somehow balance out the rest.

> people surviving with all odds against them.

Sometimes people survive when doctors think they won't. The human body is remarkably resilient. That makes it unlikely. Unlikely != miracle.

How did you know it was god? How did you rule out being mad and hearing voices?

Dawkins' scale of belief is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probabilit...

He describes himself as a 6 - that's an agnostic atheist. That means lacks belief, but does not entirely rule out the possibility of a deity.