I Suppose I should Be Flattered

I was doing a little reading on different types of rule engines today and stumbled upon this article. As I was reading through it, I had an eerie sense of dejavou; I was sure I had read this somewhere before. In fact, it almost sounded like something I might have written.

A quick search through my blog and there it was, an entry posted in September 2004.

The thing that amuses me most about copying someone elses stuff word-for-word is that you inevitably end up copying all their (or in this case my) mistakes as well. So whilst I’m flattered that someone with obviously unquestionable integrity would even consider re-using my thoughts (and even spruce them up a bit in the process) I would have thought that bloggers, armed with trackbacks and hrefs, and indeed developers in particular, would have left copy-and-paste re-use behind.