Appar­ently and unbe­knownst to me, I’ve got another site in the Nether­lands that looks com­pletely dif­fer­ent from this one save for the nav­i­ga­tion links.

All kid­ding aside, I’ve been actu­ally wait­ing for this to hap­pen. For some­one in another coun­try, or even a res­i­dent of the US of A to steal some­thing from my site, be it the nav­i­ga­tion, the lay­out, graph­ics or con­tent. In this case, this unknown per­son who I gather is from the Nether­lands, at least accord­ing to their domain appears to have just set up his or her site and in the process they’ve lifted my URLs and navigation.

I’ve seen it hap­pen to Jon Hicks, Paul Scrivens and a vari­ety of other devel­op­ers (design­ers, blog­gers, what­ever you’d like to call them).

Kudos goes to Tech­no­rati for show­ing me that links from this site were being promi­nently dis­played on another domain. I won’t lie and say it doesn’t irk me because to me this is no dif­fer­ent than steal­ing someone’s iden­tity, albeit a milder form of it.

Update: The site in ques­tion has been removed. Whether or not he or she set it up as an exper­i­ment, the fact still remains that if you plan on link­ing to another source com­pletely dif­fer­ent from your own, please be respect­ful and pro­vide credit or sim­ply email the author or designer. Many times you’ll find they will be will­ing to help you, if not allow you to use cer­tain graph­ics if proper credit is given.