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Piracy has been, and probably will always be our bread and butter.

Take a peek inside this book titled ‘Rahasia Jadi Seleb di Blog,’ written by Rulli Nasrullah:

It’s infact a comic strip created by our fellow seleblog Ndoro Kakung. It was mercilessly stolen off ndoroakakung.com, without any permission, obviously. Apparently the book author (under the pen name of Josephine K. Christian) has no idea who made the funny strip, evident to the citation below it:

Sumber: www.blogger.web.id

Quite an irony for a book that goes to an extra length to educate new bloggers not to steal other’s work.

Has anyone ever heard Rulli Nasrullah before? I don’t think she (or he) is a celebrity blogger. I’m guessing that everything the book says was not based on personal experience, but an observations of celeblogger behaviors. Oddly enough, she/he doesn’t know a seleblog as famous as Ndoro Kakung.

This begs the question: is the author really qualified to write any techniques to be a seleblog?

Update (June 3rd, 2008)
The publisher issued an apology regarding to the copyright infringement, which was claimed unintentional.

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I often amuse myself how much time I spent for writing blog posts. My latest post about deaths took four hours to write and research.

Now why do I willingly waste (if you call it unproductive) precious time like that? Because I like to have my facts correct. Critics (esp. the lame one) tend to attack one’s opinion by attacking wrong supplemental facts, not the arguement itself.

The good thing is you learn so many things during your research. Now I know that diarrhea is the top fifth killer in poor countries. The legendary HIV, which barely touches the top 10 killers in rich countries, is third most deletrious disease in the third world counterparts. Some kids are born with HIV, while many parents are losing their adult descendants due to AIDS. That is just painful isn’t it.

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One nice thing about leather goods is they age gracefully. My leather wallet gets wrinkles, oil stains, folds; but its nowhere ugly. It is infact, looks charming, and personal. As if I had extra an appendage, but detachable.

Thats why I never refrain anyone who are considering to purchase leather shoes or bags. It is a good idea, however, not to buy one with overly trendy design. You probably going to use it for years! On the other hand, overly conservative design is boriing! However, trends do come and go in cycles. I guess it’s more about the art of buying things.

My old boss used to have this studentish parachute wallet. I cannot stop myself from ignoring this fact, hence I spoke to him that people in his position should only use leather. He gave an awkward response. Must be really uncomfortable to be criticised by your subordinate, for wallet choices.

But the next day he showed me his new wallet. It was leather.

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