Monthly Archives: September 2007
SplashPress Media / GeeksBlog Plagiarism
Well, I gave them a chance. They have completely ignored me. So here I am once more, asking for your help to spread the word about plagiarism. This post on their GeeksBlog website is using one of my dad’s copyrighted images, without the courtesy of giving him credit or even so much as a linkback to his website. (You can see it with the poem it was created for by clicking here.) I e-mailed SplashPress Media (which claims the copyright to the GeeksBlog site and its contents) them over a … Continue reading
Sugar Cookies
Since I have 4 essays due this week, along with something like 13 chapters and 6 articles of assigned reading, I decided today would be a good time to bake cookies. (It’s nursing school logic. Just accept it.) A couple of weeks ago I realized that I had become addicted to Lofthouse cookies. I was having cravings for them, and looking for excuses to go to Fred Meyer so I could snag a package. The things cost like $4 for 10 cookies, though, which is just ‘way too expensive to … Continue reading
Early Attraction
I ran across this old photo of Ryan (aka Wonko) on my Flickr site tonight, and was struck once more at how early in life some aspects of one’s personality become obvious. My old IBM PCjr (shown in this photo) came with two keyboards; the original “chicklet” keyboard, which was a nightmare for non-touch-typists, and a regular keyboard with actual letters printed on the keys for normal people. Both were infrared — a keyboard cable cost an extra $25. Since the only way the system would fit on my desk … Continue reading