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It is odd and weird when I see what a minority of people do - act without honor. They say that imitation must be taken as flattery but I do not know how I should be taking this.

This particular series of incidents happened by January end, and here is a summary of the things in a chronological order.

Short version

A person copied a blog post from Splat and used it as his own site without any attribution. When I asked the person to remove the material, I got no response, and hence I intimated Google Adsense on the issue. They were not able to wrestle the content down without a DMCA report. It was a bit of inconvenience for me to file a DMCA and hence I contacted the web-host of that site and was successful in removing the material.

Long version

The 10 step tutorial to create shiny ball vector art was posted on 13th of December.

A person, who identified as www.errorforum.com commented the post on 14th of December.

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I open my Thunderbird client today morning, and there was something there that made it feel like a history recap. It was about the choice between education and blogs.

It was a post by Amit Agarwal on his blog ‘Digital Inspiration’, which was followed up by some others. It took me some time reading through some of the comments left at his blog, to actually grasp the situation that the dramatization of the whole blogging phenomena has brought to today’s young people. It has been a choice of going ‘pro-blogger’, against the choice of obtaining education, against the choice of getting into jobs that run the world.

Before I utter anything else elaborately, I should make my self clear. It is an unintelligent choice to take blogging over education and other works.

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Splat went through a bit of restructuring a couple of days back, and its primary aim was to improve the flow of information - conversation - between websites and blogs.

Websites have long become a place where the mode of information exchange is two-way in nature and not a traditional broadcast mode. People visit website, consume information and leave back their comments. If they find the given piece of information interesting enough, they would pass the link to their friends and acquaintances. There are even websites like Digg, del.icio.us, Furl and many more that have the sole purpose of letting the people share the information they have found on the different websites and blogs.

The blogs themselves have formed a group where conversations take place through commenting, trackbacks and pingbacks.

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Happy new year to all!

As the clock strikes 12 in each time zone, people celebrate on stepping into the new year - 2007. People look back on the year that has passed recollecting few moments that were memorable.

To that tradition, Splat has gained a new look. And in retrospect, quite a few things have happened.

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For those who might be wondering whatever happened to Splat after the past two posts. Some may have come to the conclusion that I might have been dead and those close to me have taken over the blog - and other few might have thought I had suddenly got multi-personality syndrome.

But as stated by our guest writer, I have been thinking of getting more people into this than myself. Few accepted my offer to become guest writers at Splat. Some of these people already have their web presence and some, who are knowledgeable in their domain will make their debut.

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A few days back I was in Chennai to attend the marriage of my former Module Leader at my previous employer. The marriage, however, was just an excuse to be in Chennai with my friends and other well wishers. And I thought, what better way to spend some quality time with those special friends in the wonderful setting of The Wang’s Kitchen, a restaurant that specializes in mouth watering Chinese delicacies. In fact, the plan to be there was formed long before I set my foot on the Tamil land.

Food has been always been my foible and that too Chinese food. If I were the heir apparent to all the richness in the world and if ever a time comes wherein I will have to barter the richness for some delectable Chicken Clear Soup, a plate of spicy Chicken Lollipop and a bowl of tangy red Schezuan Noodles, I would most probably go with the transaction with utmost happiness and/or without the slightest hint of hesitation. Knowing very well my weakness and to capitalize on it fully was my dear ‘brother in arm’ Mahesh Bhat- Bhatta for short, and the protagonist of this website.

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