Did you just nick my idea? again
I got really annoyed recently because (not for the first time) I discovered someone has ripped off my reiki website. It’s ridiculous because how lazy can you be, (or stupid) not to be able to write a simple few lines in your own words? I had the misfortune of one of my own students being offended when I gently pointed out that her website content, structure and code was actually identical to mine. Obviously the person had only copied the generic pages, they drew the line at actually pretending to have had my experiences in Nepal and India. However, the reason I get so annoyed is that it’s not difficult to write but it is difficult, tedious and annoying to handcode a whole website from scratch with a book on HTML and Notepad which is what I did in 2000 when i put together my own website. So to have someone just think they can rip me off is annoying. And then denying it is just boring. Anyway, the more recent example of a plagiarism is just so inane, I am probably more annoyed at myself for getting annoyed about it in the first place. I mean, it’s not like someone didn’t give me a photo credit or ripped off my wedding day or took over my radio show.
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