Reply From Jennifer Kyrnin for my Mail

As you might know I've posted an entire article in my blog regarding promoting a blog and Jennifer had responded in kind or that. following which I removed the post and made a clarification cum apoloby entry in this journal. As well as wrote her a mail explaning the matter and the following the communication.

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Thanks. Posting a link is a completely appropriate and nice thing to do when someone writes something you like. In fact, doing that may get them to return the favor. But when you copy the work that they've done, you are potentially taking their livelihood. Which isn't nice at all. :-)

Thanks for removing the content.

Jennifer Kyrnin
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Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan wrote:
Dear Ms. Jennifer Kyrinin,

Kindly accept my apologies for posting your article in my blog (http://blog.nocturnalknight.in).

Actually I am a longtime subscriber of your newsletter and actually learned XHTML/CSS from your site and I quite view you as a Demigod/Titian. And Since I am new o Blogging this web-related issue and combined with the enthusiasm I've posted your article blatantly, instead I could've shown/linked the article in the place.

Kindly understand that I posted so somebody might benefit outta it, but then I am deeply sorry for Violating you IPR will surely never again post such articles, and if the feeling shud come, I'll restrain myself to posting the Link.

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Thanks & Regards,
Ramkumar.S

What a shame, I was plagiarizing! But wait...Sorry Jennifer.

Well , Thanks for visiting this blog and I hope the title of this post is what caught your attention.

Yup, I was plagiarizing some really wonderful content from About Web-design portal. And especially the content from Jennifer. What a sin? Yes I know what Plagiarizing is and damn have been affected by it for some time now. Wait, but how did i end up "Eatin" Jennifer's Content??

Back in time, I was an up and coming designer (in my native place) and struggled hard to make both ends meet and was seriously thinking of freelancing as an option. And I should admit, though i had a enthuasism i lacked some very rimetry skills in web-design. All I've done is my college's website and 5-6 Geocities sites for exporters from India who happen o frequent the same cyber cafe as was I.

And by that time the Dotcom hadn't burst into fumes and so everybody seemed to have been wanting a site and every one who can write HTML seemed to be freelancing . Hell, some even made fortunes with a little CGI thrown in. But I was a little slack in perl and there was no PHP back then. I inched past the dotcom bust and somehow survived with some Loyal clients who seem to be satisfied with my meager skills or may be thay were unwilling to learn that...so I survived...

And then around 2004 I was introduced o the wonderful world of Cascading Style Sheet and it was love at first sight, but as they say a good lover is seldom a good spouce , and so I went in search of resources  to learn the dark art of Browser-neutral / Standards Compliance designs. And Thus found the Angelic guidance of Jennifer Krin and Miles Burke in learning and utilizing them respectively.

Over the course of the past 3 years , I am among the thousands of enthuasistic web-designers who look at thier Inbox expetantly for Both Jennifer's About web-design Guide and Miles's Site point Tribune newsletters. 

In the past week , I decided I will blog so that I can learn some more and perhaps if possible share some of my ideas/skills with fellow ppil. But in the enthuasism, I got a little carried waway and just aham, ahem CTRL+C and CTRL+V ed some wonderful newsletter from Kyrinin, now thats called impulsive spontanous thinking, coz' i've opened so many newsletters from Jennifer and had never felt the urge to appreciate it, but prhaps since I've got a blog myself now, I mighthave thought it  as a sort of honouring her by posting her newsletter/article in my blog.

And what happens, I get a reprimindation from Jennifer herself for overstepping my affinity with her works...

Well whats the 1st lesson for me in this blog???

Seek prior permission if quoting prior arts in your posts..

Thanks Jennifer for the Timely intervention and you just may be have saved me from going down the way a million bloggers go...plagiarizing..

And this blog is both an apology and tribute rolled into one...

Thanks for everything...