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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken

Jiminy Cricket Bit Me

May 17, 2005

Someone needs to hit me in the head and tell me to just go ahead and upload my entries when I’m done writing them. I always finish them and then leave the computer to do or get something, and then hours or days go by and I completely forget that I haven’t bothered to upload the entry to my site. Too bad the computer can’t reach out and poke me as a reminder.

Moving on to other matters, let’s all give a collective sigh for the permanent departure of the Dark Girl poetry archive. After a couple of years online, I caved in to my nagging conscience and took down the poems because of copyright issues. Much as I’d like to stick it to The Man and keep the poems up, it just felt hypocritical to maintain an archive of copyrighted poetry and still bitch whenever someone stole my original poems. Stupid conscience. Look what I’ve been reduced to in the past year or so: a morally-upright law-abider who doesn’t download illegal music files, doesn’t post copyrighted material on her site, and carefully checks Fair Use laws before posting anything anywhere. My God, but I disgust myself.

On the other hand, my not-so-newfound respect for copyright laws (even the uncool government ones) has led to a renewal of creativity and originality. I’ve been building up a good library of stock photos and original textures to use for my wallpapers and icons. Increased originality is never a bad thing. :-)