danger smells like clean socks

Just got back online after that post yesterday to find my inbox filled with great little Tabulas comments. I'm especially loving the little flame war going on here.

Here I will debunk common beliefs by Ms. Elena Dan:

1.) Elena, I am in Korea. I cannot resolve to a NY ISP. Unfortunately for you, the only time I even visited your site was a few minutes ago to see how "original" your design is to see how much injustice has been done. I have no intentions nor do I want to "secretly" flame you in your blog.

2.) I am fully capable of deleting your comments and banning you from the whole site. But I'm getting a very good laugh out of all this ... seeing how worked up someone can get over something so simple. Please... continue to make a fool of yourself in my journal :) I think a lot of people are getting a good laugh out of it.

3.) I'm not sure if you listened and implemented a quick .htaccess to deny images, but I don't see bandwidth "theft" any more. Also, this person (minzywee) is not making any attempts to say this is hers; she's left all references to your website active. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was just messing around one day and seeing how far the templating engine would go.

4.) Minzywee hasn't posted since May 15th. I doubt anybody is even visiting that site, except for you, agonizing over the loss of "design theft."

5.) Let me give you a hint here: You are not a great designer. Hell, you're not even a good designer. I'm sorry, but you're probably about to hit that "Comment" button and respond the same to me. Guess what? I know I'm not a great designer ... or a great programmer. I've written about security issues on end and end on this site, fully addressing the problems. I've said this, but this site is a learning experience for me. So your little comments laughing at the downfalls of Tabulas are not gonig to botehr me one bit. I post them on the main page so people are aware of the problems and now there is a transparency between this project and the people using it.

My point here is this: Don't go around making a huge deal out of something so inane. I mean really, do you ahve to spend so much time on such a simple object ... can't you swallow your pride for a second and send me a proper email?

6.) You acting like a bitch will not resolve this issue any further. Furthermore, continuing to flame me or anybody else is not goingg to resolve this issue any faster. As I have said time and time again, the moment you start acting civilly and give me some time to get my stuff together, I will be glad to help you out.

7.) Get a life.


In conclusion, Elena, I will be glad to help you out. Any continued comments and flames will be ignored. Feel free to send me an email and I will be glad to help you out. Any emails containing flames or continuing this discussion will be promptly deleted.

Sorry to drag all the extended readership of my blog here. I won't post any more on this issue.