Retaliation

I feel mortally offended. It's past 2 am after a long, excruciating day, but I don't think I can sleep till I have posted this. I have been accused of something that I was not even aware that I have done. I have been accused of plagiarism.

Okay, here's the long and short of it. I was really impressed with a blog of a certain friend of mine, particularly the music on a radio station on it, and I told him so. So thereafter I always made a habit of visiting his blog whenever I could. I had no idea that I could even copy or paste or whatever...(refer to the post about me being clueless). Then one fine day, as I was chatting with another friend, he asked me if I would like the html code for that particular radio station so I could post it on my blog. I didn't ask him where he got it from, assuming that he was more "computer-conversant", which was probably my fault. Anyway, so I happily put it on my blog, ending up in my being accused of plagiarism...sigh... Worse still, it was plastered all over the chat boxes of various blogs. In the spirit of things, I could have said that talking about it amounted to defamation i.e. when you accuse someone of something without getting the facts straight. I think this is what rather upset me, even more so than the plagiarism itself. I always believe that if you have an issue with someone, you should discuss it with that particular person first rather than spread it around to everyone else.

Anyhow, it has since been removed and I just wanna apologize to my friend for "cheesing him off" as he put it. It was never my intention to do so, and never my intention to plagiarize. So anyway, this is just something to get off my chest ya, and no hard feelings... Hopefully, my friend feels the same way. I think this whole episode has given me blog-phobia. Better hope I can get over it fast or else I might not feel like blogging for a while...sigh...it never used to be this complicated...