Category Archives: Indignancies
Bureaucracy is Hurricane-Proof
My parents live in a rural area of Texas to the north of Houston, an area hard-hit by the fallout of Ike but not in spectacular and showy ways that rate media or government attention. Residents of several neighboring towns are without power because the company that supplied them with service was wiped out by the hurricane. They will be without electricity for weeks, probably longer. Local residents are trying to feed their families without refrigeration, and the stores don’t have it either so there’s nowhere to buy food. Local … Continue reading
The Nursing School Experience
Bravo to Phil Baumann, RN, for his blog post, An Open Letter to Some Nursing Education Faculty. To his list, I would also like to add “Appreciate your students’ previous knowledge and life experience.” As someone who attended nursing school after a successful career in the tech industry, it was disconcerting to be expected to forfeit my adulthood and life experiences and submit to being treated as though I were a naive and inexperienced 18-year-old just out of high school. I had lived in a foreign country and six different … Continue reading
It’s a Small World
I built my first website back in 1995. It was about sugar gliders, and was the first of millions of sites to come that would be devoted to those intriguing little creatures. It actually even made Netscape Cool Site of the Day one time. Of course, back then there were only about 37 websites in the entire universe, so I guess that wasn’t really a terribly impressive accomplishment. That same year, some guy copied my site, put his name on it, and printed it out, complete with an introduction thanking … Continue reading
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
Plagiarism Saga Concluded
Amidst much continued protesting of “we didn’t know” and “it didn’t say it was copyrighted” and “everybody else does it,” (not to mention the references to how “rude” my friends and I were for complaining — stealing people’s work is what’s rude!) and “we don’t make any profit” when there are ads all over the website that somebody’s getting paid for, etc., the plagiarism perpetrator has, at least, apologized to my dad and sent the following to her mailing list subscribers: We have received a complaint from the family of … Continue reading
Plagiarism Update
The flurry of e-mails (thank you!) generated by my previous message about WackyWits.com’s use of one of my dad‘s original cartoons finally prompted a response: We have had an e-mail from your daughter re a page done a long while ago. She has said we used one of your pictures. This picture was freely available on the internet at the time with no copyright notice on it at all. We take very great care in trying not to use copyrighted images or pictures and always, always give the name of … Continue reading
Help Me Fight Plagiarism
This Sandi V. woman runs a for-profit humor website called “WackyWits.com,” and a Yahoo! mailing list called “Thingos.” On her site, she has a six-paragraph page about copyright infringement, with numerous links to the US Copyright code. Yet this image, which she claims ownership of, contains an original cartoon that my dad created, which was taken from his website (FamilyPoet.com). I have tried contacting her to resolve this nicely, but she has ignored my messages, and that makes me mad. She’s messing with MY DAD, by golly, and I don’t … Continue reading