This may be near the top of the most ridiculous articles I’ve read in a while.

So ridiculous, in fact — That it has encouraged me to post about it.

So, according to Matthew Garrett, disabling your flash player will help you save lots of energy, so disable it! He complains that when he visits myspace, his machine gets overloaded.

Well, Matthew — 2 things:

1. Get a faster computer.
2. Stop going to myspace, that site sucks by itself, aside from Flash

I’ve been in several debates and discussions with people who just do not like flash for their own reason. In most cases, their argument is legitimate, and I just don’t share their opinion. In this case, it is just a double whammy — not only do I disagree, but his argument is completely ridiculous.

Sure, saving power = good idea. But to go so far as to bash a specific technology so insignificant compared to other power-hungry things, it just seems really bizarre & far fetched to me.

Ok, I’m done. I feel better now.

When I naively starting blogging, it never occurred to me that I would have problems that I’m sure many other bloggers are having these days. I’m talking about blog article piracy. I recently discovered more than 15 sites who have decided upon themselves to take one of my most hard-worked articles and stick it up on their site. For example, look at this site who took my entire article and slapped it on thier site: http:// www*webknowhow*net/dir/Other_Resources/articles/SmartRedirect.html (remove spaces and replace *’s with .’s).

Now this is petty compared to all the other kinds of piracy that goes on, I am aware of this. But where does it end? What sort of options does a blogger have in his or her defense? I don’t mind when other sites provide snippets of my article and talk about it a bit. But when somebody blatantly steals your article and slaps it on their site and calls it their own, it boils my blood!

What can a blogger do?

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